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dermkat 's review for:
You, As You Are
by Emma Sewell
I don't remember how this came across my radar but I'm so glad I read it because it was lovely! The cover certainly caught my eye but the FMC also intrigued me: Maisie is English, almost thirty, plus sized, has Endo, and just moved to a small town in Wales to live with her elderly grandmother. A grandmother who immediately brings her to her senior's hiking club (under duress because she's not a hiker), where she immediately-and literally-falls for the only other person under 40 in the group. Iain is 35, Welsh, moved to town about 18 months ago after an engagement ended and he was broke and alone since he'd left his family farm years earlier and is estranged from his family (mostly due to his overbearing father). The two eventually come up with a fake dating plan when the seniors continually facilitate ways to get them together. But of course, as he discoveres the layers of hurt and life experience beneath her sunshine, and she discovers the gentle soul stuck under his grumpy exterior, they fall for one another. The fat rep and disability rep are so, so well done in this one, and there's just something soft and comforting about this romance set in the Welsh countryside. This is the second in what I assume will be a growing series about her friend group, so I'll likely go back and read the first one about two of her friends who apparently got together shortly before this one started.