All her life, Hattie has been the independent free spirit, never married, with an adopted child who she rescued from war-torn Bosnia, setting up her own business, travelling to France 4 times a year to replenish stock for her antiques shop, happy to flaunt her toyboy lover. Now Dominic is dead, killed in an isolated terrorist attack, and no other man has ever measured up to him.
15 years later, she meets up again with Dom's younger brother Hal, who was her best friend in college, and old feelings resurface, but Hal is engaged to be married in a few month's time. Circumstances in her life start to overwhelm her and she realizes how alone she really is, in spite of her close, loving family and friends, she is a lonely middle-aged woman on a downward path to being old, when all she had ever really wanted was to be barefoot and pregnant, happily married to the man of her dreams, a brood of kids and a cottage in the country.
Only after she faces up to this reality, can she finally admit the truth about what really happened one day in May between her and Dominic.
One Day in May is filled with hopes and dreams, of how Hattie fell in love with the unattainable, finally grew up, lived her life, and then met the man who became her one true love.
There are parts that will have you laugh hysterically out loud, and parts where you want to cringe with embarrassment for Hattie as she repeatedly puts her foot in it, and parts that will make you cry.
There is depth, harsh reality and ugliness also, as truths long hidden begin to emerge. One Day in May is compulsively readable, touching and completely charming.
Yes there is a happy ending here, but perhaps not quite the one you think.
Happy reading!
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