The Beach Boyfriend

by Tamsin Bracknell, Tamsin Bracknell

A family holiday by the sea. A fake relationship. One week to keep up the ruse...

Every summer, Tasha's family go to Nanny Maggs' beautiful beach home on Guernsey. The sea is sparkling, the weather is scorching and she's excited to be with her family.
But now both her sisters are married, being the only singleton is starting to lose its charm. And to make matters worse, her well-meaning grandmother won't stop setting her up.
To Tasha's surprise, her best friend's brother, Jed, offers to play her boyfriend for the holiday. But what she doesn't know yet is that he has his own reasons to go along with the ruse, reasons that may come back to bite them...

110 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 15, 2022

Reviews

[Celia {Semi Hiatus} · Rating 3 out of 5]

A predictable short story (110 pages), 2.6 stars.

Tasha needs a boyfriend, so her family don't annoy her for being the only single lady in the family, during the family vacations week.
Jed needs a girlfriend, so his ex stops stalking him.
There are a lot of funny situations, Sean, Tasha brother-in-law, it's a perfect idiot, so we can expect a lot of stupid and childish things of them.
It's the best in this book, the funny situations.

Since this one doesn't have description, it's kinda like this:

"A family holiday by the sea. A fake relationship. One week to keep up the ruse...
Every summer, Tasha's family go to Nanny Maggs' beautiful beach home on Guernsey. The sea is sparkling, the weather is scorching and she's excited to be with her family.
But now both her sisters are married, being the only singleton is starting to lose its charm. And to make matters worse, her well-meaning grandmother won't stop setting her up.
To Tasha's surprise, her best friend's brother, Jed, offers to play her boyfriend for the holiday. But what she doesn't know yet is that he has his own reasons to go along with the ruse, reasons that may come back to bite them..."

[Sophie Mackay · Rating 2 out of 5]

2* - nice and easy quick read, however pretty predictable

[Nicola Whelan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nicola’s review

It’s a brilliant bouncy short read of a book. It’s very entertaining, and easy to capture everyone’s character in one’s mind. I enjoyed this book immensely.

[Natasha Bramall · Rating 2 out of 5]

Probably my least favourite book of the year so far, and not just because I was uncomfortable with the main characters name being Natasha. You might like it for an easy read but to me it was a poor attempt of one with too many cliches and not an ounce of depth.