Behind Every Cloud

by Pauline Lawless

Who would have thought a wine course could be life-changing? But a group of people signing on for wine-expert Sam's course are about to find out. Ellie is planning her dream wedding to accountant David who has just been head-hunted by a prestigious firm. She detests social pretensions but he seems overawed by his elite new colleagues. Can they overcome these differences? Rachel is the beautiful wife of newly elected politician, Carl. Perfect life, perfect home, perfect children but is anything ever as perfect as it seems? Does Carl have a roving eye and is Rachel too fond of her wine? Ronan's marriage to shopaholic Louise is teetering on a knife-edge and, when he loses his job, things go from bad to worse. Then Sam offers him a job in one of his wine shops. But can he get his life back on track? Zita, who works in television, is fiercely ambitious and has set her sights on Rachel's husband to further her success. Will she be able to ensnare him? Eight weeks later, they know their wines but everything else has changed out of all recognition.

Genres: Romance

453 pages, Paperback

First published July 19, 2012

Reviews

[Teresa Perrott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

What woman hasn't always dreamed of their own wedding day since they were little, Ellie certainly has but is her fiance right for her? Does the politician wife have it all? How can Ronan deal with his wife's extravagant lifestyle these are just a few people that all become from friends after a wine tasting course run by the gorgeous Sam. Read their ups and downs and laugh along with them too

[Rhonda Parsons · Rating 4 out of 5]

Silver linings

Love this author's books and her characters. The intertwining of lives is farfetched but reality can be just that. The descriptions and conversations are as realistic as can be.

[Sue Cooke · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. The characters are believable and I found myself taking sides. I would recommend this book.

[Margaret P · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this. It reminded me of the way Maeve Binchy used to weave the stories around multiple characters. I must look out for more of this author's books

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sam’s wine course thrusts Ellie, Rachel, Ronan and Zita together. Ellie is planning her dream wedding, but when her fiancée starts a prestigious new job things begin to change between them. Ronan’s marriage to shopaholic Louise is on the rocks, and has left him in dire financial straits. Rachel is married to high profile politician Carl, but her perfect life is a facade. And unknown to anyone, Zita’s sole reason for joining the course is to ensnare Rachel’s husband to further her career in television.
After eight weeks on the wine course, they know their wines, and firm friendships have been formed. But everything else has changed beyond recognition.
The wine course brings together a diverse range of personalities, and they complimented each other well. Zita is the standout character for me, you have to love to hate her, and she has a great background story. I also found the portrayal of Rachel and the challenges of her life behind the glamour to be quite interesting.
With an abundance of central characters, this book was never boring. However, there was a bit too many stories going on for me, and while they all intertwined perfectly, at times I felt that if there were one or two less, the more compelling ones could have been fleshed out more. That said, I did enjoy this book immensely, and will certainly be looking forward to reading more by Pauline Lawless.

[Marcia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read the book on my kindle and there were symbols for every " ' and - throughout the book. I then switched to my iPad and there was none of that punctuation at all. Very frustrating and meant that I found it really hard going for the first 30% of the book. After that my eyes and mind got used to it and I enjoyed the story but this did mean that I didn't enjoy it as much as I've enjoyed previous books from this author.

[Liz Balaam · Rating 3 out of 5]

I downloaded this onto my Kindle. I would probably have given it another star if the editing had been better. I found it very irritating that words were often joined together. Readinglikethis - it got a bit annoying. The story line was good though and I really liked all the characters. It is worth reading, but if you get irritated with bad editing then give it a miss.

[Aedin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow what a read , started it this morn finished it less than 12 hrs later too good to put down excellent book well worth a read

[Marese · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rely enjoyed this book well worth a read it has lots of different twists and turns couldn't put it down

[Carol · Rating 1 out of 5]

Utter tosh, but it did kill the time on a plane.

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice light hearted story but writing was terrible. Couldn't been a lot better.

[Jeanette Verster · Rating 3 out of 5]

The editing drove me nuts! Every page had wordsthat werestrung together! Very annoying.
Other than that cool story... TBH just bought it because it was about a wine club :)