Copy received from Hachette Australia for an honest review

I enjoyed Sophie Green's first book, so it was a treat to receive an early copy of The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle.

Stories with an ensemble cast can go one of two ways from me - it can be well written and I thoroughly enjoy meeting all the characters, or it can be train wreck.

Thankfully, this book was the first, and I have enjoyed reading each day in my lunch break.

As an adult, I know how hard it can be to make new friends - I mean, who doesn't have friends that I have known for 30 years, but the thought of making a new friend makes me break out in hives!

Marie, Theresa, Elaine and Leeane, all at different ages and stages of their lives. meeting and becoming great friends , each having a different kind of relationship with the surf they swim in every morning (I couldn't be in this swimming circle, what if Jaws got me!).

I loved how each of our lovely ladies stories progressed. Their tales were told lovingly, and you can't help be adore each and every one of them. Love, loss, personal growth - there is a bit of it all in this story.

Sophie Green writes with a loving style that had me right back in the 80s with this awesome foursome.

I can't wait to see what Ms Green brings us next.