How do you choose between love… and your best friend? Because you can’t have both.
Anna is about to get divorced. Again. Lucy is struggling to cope with being a widow and parenting a stroppy teenager.
Their lives may be very different, but their friendship has always been unbreakable.
Lucy has to learn to navigate life on her own, unaware of the drama that’s unfolding in Anna’s. Anna is being pulled in all directions, as usual.
So when an invitation arrives from Celeste, an old friend, for a birthday holiday in Ibiza, it feels like exactly what they sunshine, reconnecting, and a little escape from reality.
But as they prepare to fly off to the sun with their children in tow, Lucy runs into Mark, her first love. The connection is instant, electric… and impossible to ignore.
As secrets unravel and emotions boil over under the blue skies of the White Island sun, loyalties will be tested, hearts will be broken, and the truth will change everything.
Can you really have it all? Or will someone have to walk away?
If you love fiction about women who are complicated, resilient, and utterly real — women who make mistakes, love fiercely, and find their footing when the ground shifts beneath them — then we're probably going to get along very well. I write women's contemporary fiction about the messy, beautiful, sometimes brutal reality of female lives. My books explore the fault lines in relationships — the secrets kept, the betrayals that reshape everything, the unexpected moments where women discover a strength they didn't know they had. Romance, family drama, and the darker corners of human behaviour all find their way onto my pages. I'm the author of five novels including Breaking Eggshells, with a sixth on the way. If you'd like to know when it lands — along with exclusive short stories and the occasional gift — you're welcome to visit me at livandrews.co.uk. I'd love to know what you think of my books. There's nothing better than hearing from a reader who felt seen in the pages.