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Love... Under Different Skies
Ahh Nick Spalding. I have loved every novel he has written starring Jaime and Laura Newman. Seriously if you want to laugh so hard you have milk/soda/tea spilling out of your nose start reading the first two books in the series, "Love From Both Sides" and "Love and Sleepless Nights". You get to see how Jaime and Laura first met and became man and wife and then follow them through the birth of their first child Poppy.With "Love Under Different Skies" you have Jaime and Laura coming to an impasse in their marriage. Once again told from Jaime and Laura's points of view we follow a year of Jaime and Laura uprooting themselves from the UK to move to Australia with a new chocolate company that has hired Laura.
What I really loved about this novel is that you get to see gender roles flipped with Laura being the sole breadwinner and Jaime being the househusband. I thought Mr. Spalding was very realistic about how much resentment that would breed in a marriage from both sides.
We also get some lovely anecdotes about Australia, the people, the food, the weather. I seriously want to go there though it sounds like everything in the world there will kill you.
If Mr. Spalding continues with this series I hope he continues with the story told from both Jaime and Laura's point of view though it would be nice to get Poppy's thoughts when she is a pre-teen or teenager about her crazy parents.
I definitely recommend!