This is book three of a super cool series by Kate Hewitt. Even though you can read them as standalones, they’re each so good that I think you should read them all!

I thought I wouldn’t like cool, haughty, richy-rich Harriet with the snotty daughter, but I did! Harriet fit herself right in to Willoughby Close, despite her own discomfort, for the good of her children. She made some missteps, screwed up a few things marriage-wise, and was more materialistic than I could stomach … but Harriet redeemed herself by showing heart and diving in to a journey of self-discovery and development.

I so enjoyed Harriet’s adventures with her children, the elderly neighbor, and the family next door. I also appreciated Harriet’s time spent alone – where Hewitt showed the reader quite clearly Harriet’s struggles and growth. Who knew I would come to love Harriet so much? And that after she changed she would be loved just as dearly by her family and new friends.

I can’t say enough about Hewitt’s masterful development of characters. Applause from me for writing light stories with meaningful messages and big heart.

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Kate Hewitt has penned a truly delightful story in Find Me At Willoughby Close. This one definitely requires a tissue box, but it will also make you smile at times and laugh out loud at others.
In the world of romance novels, this one is unusual in that it is the story of Harriet and Richard, a married couple with three children, who had the perfect life on the surface but who were falling apart underneath.
Losing everything and coming very close to divorce shakes these two up and has them re-evaluating their lives and lifestyle, along the way learning to love each other once again.
This is the third story in Kate Hewitt's Willoughby Close series and I love them all. Each loosely relates to the others but can be read very comfortable as stand-alone novels.
I loved this story. I loved the setting in England's gorgeous Cotswolds. I loved the wry humour and the tender moments and I can't wait for Kate Hewitt's next offering.

Thanks Netgalley. Loved Harriet - loved Willoughby Close, the family and the friendships. Read it

I am enjoying this series, but particularly liked this book. I was rather emotional at times as I read this book. Something about how we try so hard to leave our past behind only to find it matters and may even bring us comfort. Major events (job loss, marriage breakup, illness, etc. ) in our lives can do that...and clarify for us what really matters.

This is the perfect story to show that you don’t always know what is going on in someone else’s life.
Harriet Lange had everything, or so it seemed. Then one day, it’s all gone. Her husband’s job is gone…and has been for quite a while, and the second mortgage on the house is way behind. There is no money, and to top it off, her husband’s younger assistant is his new confidant.With everything gone, Harriet finds her way to Willoughby Close, renting acottage for herself and the kids while her husband looks for, a job that will get them into another “dream home.” After this, she starts to realize that somewhere along the way, she became a person she didn’t like.
It takes time, but Harriet starts to find the person she was and wants to be. She also rediscovers her family and finds true friends that like her for herself and learns how to be a true friend.
Kate Hewitt again writes a story with characters that could not only be your friend, but a story that could happen to any one of us. The connections and emotion pull you in and keep you hooked until the last page. This story is part of a series, but can be read as a stand alone. I honestly cannot wait to see what happens next at Willoughby Close.

Welcome to Willoughby Close… a charming cluster of cozy cottages found in Wychwood-on-Lea… a not-too-quaint village each with a story to tell and a happy ending to deliver…

Find Me at Willougby Close is the second full length book in the Willoughby Close series by Kate Hewitt. Its more a second chance at life rather than just a romance with Harriet Lang's turn for her own happy ending. Readers were first introduced to Harriet in the first book, Meet Me at Willoughby Close. She was part of the posh mommies set, the elite in the village of Wychwood-on-Lea, who by the latter part was now living at No.2 Cottage of Willoughby Close.

When Find Me opens, we get an idea of how Harriet has fallen from the social elites grace and the story revolves around how she manages to cope with her new life. She basically starts over again and at the same time realizes whats really important and that sometimes happiness is found in the simplest of situations.

I adored how everything was tackled in this story, its matter of fact description of becoming a single mom, of finding yourselves unemployable after several years of not being in the workplace, of juggling kids, home, marriage without the basics at your fingertips was every day people life. And it worked to pushing the plot forward with its simplicity. You as a reader starts cheering Harriet on, you feel the same things she feels, the decisions she makes and everything in between. It's life! Now looking forward to the next book!

Harriet Lang seems to have it all. Suddenly her life implodes. She finds that her husband, Richard, is involved with his twenty-six year old assistant. The hits keep on coming. Next she finds out that he lost his job six months ago, that they're broke and are losing their dream house. What else could go wrong? Harriet is crushed when she has to move to a rental house in Willoughby Close. All her possessions are gone. Her children are angry and afraid. I understood Harriet's emotional reactions. She has trouble coping with her new reality. Her "friends" turn against her and enjoy her loss. I admire Harriet's ability to move forward and adapt to the changes in her life. She realizes that she needs to change her priorities and face her new realities. My heart broke for her. She still cares for her husband and can't cope when she realizes that he doesn't like the woman that she's become. The changes she makes are amazing. I liked how she becomes a stronger person. As she and Richard adapt, they grow closer. Will they get a second chance? This is an emotional drama that broke my heart and then healed it. I care for all the characters and wanted them to be happy. I was drawn to Lady Stokeley. She is a grand dame with unbelievable courage. Kate Hewitt wrote a beautiful story that kept me reading. I love the residents of Willoughby Close.
I received a copy of this book. I voluntarily read it. My comments are my honest opinion.

This book is part of a series of books, but definitely can be read as a stand alone book.
I haven't had the pleasure of reading the other books but after reading this one I am most definitely going to read them!
Not reading the previous books did not hinder my enjoyment of reading this book at all!

Find me at the Willoughby close is about new beginnings, family and friendship.

I really enjoyed reading this book.
It tackled real life situations of the daily struggles of losing your job, home and getting into large amounts of debt and as a result, nearly losing your family because of it, and tackling the strains of infidelity.

Harriet had it all, beautiful family, amazing home,a Great Husband, good friends and no money worries she could do and spend what ever she liked.
However all that was about to change forever!

Harriet comes across Richards (her husband) mobile phone bill.
It seems he has been making very long phone calls to he's Sexy Secretary Meghan.
But the thing that stood out was the times, early hours of the morning!
He was hardly ever home, always working late in London. Well so she thought!

Harriet confronts Richard who doesn't deny the affair however he's been hiding an even bigger secret!......

He lost he's job several months ago and they are broke! They have used practically all their savings and are about to lose the family home they love so much.

Harriet is absolutely devastated.
She soon moves into Willoughby Close with her 3 children, leaving Richard to find he's own accommodation. With the potential outcome to find a job.
 What will happen to them and can she ever forgive Richard for the lies and secrets!

I could see both sides of the story where it comes to Richard not telling Harriet he was broke, as he was scared. she was changing and enjoyed the high life, the social aspect of money with no regard to expense he felt a failure.
But I can also see Harriets side as he should of told her. Why confide in he's secretary!

Word soon gets around that they have moved out and have stared renting Willoughby cottage.
People start to look at Harriet differently, her so called friends no longer wish to socialise with someone who has no money or status.

Her oldest Daughter Mallory is also struggling to adapt as her friends are talking and she picks up on the fact her Mum is unhappy and her Dad no longer lives with them.

Harriet finds herself in a very lonely position.  Her marriage is on the brink of divorce, she has no money, no friends, no job, and now she has to start giving up things the children love. Such as the pony, downgrading her car etc..

I had a love/ hate relationship with Harriet.
On one hand I truly felt sorry for her, she had absolutely no idea that her husband lost he's job. But on the other hand I was annoyed with her attitude towards money and lifestyle.

However her journey was warming to watch as she went through a huge character change learning so much about herself and about life.

Harriet's children were a breath of fresh air they kept her grounded and never complained. Well apart from Mallory but she was older and see things, but even she learnt the value of friendship

All of the characters were really well thought about and each one went on a personal journey throughout the story.

Kate was clearly portraying a strong message that you don't need money and materialistic things to buy happiness and love.

I loved that strong feel to the book Kate made her point in so many ways throughout the book.
It was so nice to see each character learn that message in their own personal way!

I highly recommend this book, it was so charming to read and Kate made the story come to life whilst tackling real life issues.

I am really really hoping that there will be another book as I am so intrigued by Lady Stokeley that a book could be written just on her story alone!
This isn't the end for Harriet and her family, plus there is still one empty cottage and a new intriguing  neighbour to learn about. I can't wait!!!

Another great installment in the Willoughby Close series. Where the first two books seemed a bit more lighthearted and romantic, this one touches on deeper subjects. It didn’t have the romantic feel like the previous books did. It is more of a women’s fiction story about starting over after you lose everything.

It all started with a discovery on the phone bill. Harriet Lang found out her husband Richard had been making many middle of the night phone calls to his secretary. When she confronts Richard about the discovery and finds out he lost his job six months ago and has been confiding in his former secretary, Harriet’s world falls apart. Piece by piece, everything Harriet loved, from her prized home, to her car, the children’s after school activities, and even their horse, is stripped away. Harriet is forced to move into a three bedroom apartment at Willoughby Close which even means not every child gets their own bedroom as they were accustomed to. Richard doesn’t move with them, he gets a place in London where he can continue his job search.

While Harriet and her three children adjust to their new life, Harriet realizes her friends really weren’t the best of friends as she thought they were. They turned on her when they found out she didn’t have any money and she split up with her husband. She becomes friends with a couple of unlikely characters, one is her neighbor (from the previous book) who she didn’t think much of when she first met her and another is the eccentric elderly lady who owns Willoughby Manor. Harriet also comes to terms on what is going on in her marriage and does a lot of soul searching trying to figure out her next move. She doesn’t want to lose what she and Richard had and doesn’t want to break up the family, but she has trouble moving past what Richard has done. It was interesting to watch the story unfold. The book ended up in a way I didn’t predict.

If you read the previous book in this series, Harriet is mentioned many times and the author didn’t paint a pretty picture of her. I honestly didn’t like Harriet. But in this book she redeems herself and I learned why she acted the way she did. I was glad to read Harriet’s story. It all made sense then. The book is well written and kept me interested throughout.

I say it every time but I love Kate Hewitt. Find me at Willoughby Close is another winner. This series is becoming a favorite of mine. I love that Inight every book we learn more about Lady Stokely. I really like how all the characters from Willoughby Close interact together.

Harriet grows so much as a person throughout her book. Her children also grow. I like how the book flowed and how everyone comes together in the end.

It is a credit to Kate Hewitt’s writing that I liked Harriet Lang in Find Me at Willoughby Close. This is because I have been reading this series from the start so I did not particularly like her or her daughter, Mallory in the book concerning Ellie. Thanks to Kate Hewitt, I gave this character a second chance. Harriett grew on me as she dealt with the fallout from her husband’s transgressions. Perhaps she had been too smug but boy, does she change as she rebuilds herself. Maybe admire is too strong of a word to use but I did really start to like her.

This is a well-developed story of a family in crisis. It has some surprising twists especially at the end that I did not expect but found to be perfectly satisfactory. In fact, it has a reaffirming kind of ending. Find Me at Willoughby Close may well be my favorite of the series. Also, it reads well as a stand-alone.


4.5 Stars
An ARC of the book was given to me by the publisher through Net Galley.

Somewhere between 3 and 4 stars. This is the third book in the Willoughby Close series.

Harriet Lang is a yummy mummy. She has come a long way from her lower middle class upbringing in Birmingham, as a couple, she and Richard have come a long way from the broke young university students starting out in a crumby flat with make do furniture. They live in a show place in a small village in the Cotswolds with a population swollen by wealthy London commuters. Richard is one of those commuters, spending long hours in his job as a hedge fund manager playing with millions of dollars of other peoples money and bringing home a hefty swag of filthy lucre to fund their lifestyle.

Only one day, Harriet finds it's all a lie. Richard has lost his job, the perfect house is double mortgaged and the bank is about to foreclose. Worse than that at the long phone calls late at night Richard has been making to his attractive and much younger, former secretary.

With this, begins a journey for Harriet to find out exactly who she is, stripped of money, status and husband of fourteen years. The first step is the move to number two Willoughby Close, the small three bedroom rental a big comedown from one of the elite homes of the village.

Harriet has to make new friends, deal with a much reduced income and grieve for all she and her three children have lost. It is a hard journey and we have to travel with her all the way. Throughout the journey is the problem of Richard and his betrayal of trust. This is a marriage that has lost it's way and whether it can be saved is a major focus of the story.

Like the others in the series, this is a very real story about ordinary people leading ordinary lives and struggling with challenges that are recognizable to us all. I found Richard difficult to like at times, though he is a likeable person. The weakness he displayed was hard to excuse and the challenge of ensuring a happy ending in those circumstances was well done.

I received a copy from Netgalley for an independent review

Another Fabulous book in the Willoughby close series. I'm loving that each book has been from a different point of view so we see that perhaps what one character thinks is going on can be completely wrong and people have their own struggles going on. Harriett wasn't my favourite character in the previous books and i must say I haven't really changed my mind but I do understand her a bit better now!

I can't wait for another installment because this is such a fun series!

Another winner from the Willoughby Close series! I love the characters, the village, everything about this heartwarming series. I'm already looking forward to the next installment!

This is one of those books that you just feel pure pleasure and joy when reading it. It's also likely that many readers like me will remember this sweet and heartfelt read long after they are finished reading it. Kate Hewitt does an amazing job with this story and, much like the previous books in the series, I have come to love her characters immensely.

3.5 stars.

This book is all about Harriet. Even though the events are happening to her whole family, Harriet remains the main focus. Which is understandable, because she is hit hard – especially at the start – and she has a lot of adjustments to make. This whole book is a growth exercise for her, really, starting with a lot of pruning before she can finally try to grow again in a different – and hopefully better – direction.

Which is fine, because I do have a lot of sympathy for her, but my goodness, sometimes it is hard to like her. She might appear upbeat to people, but inside she’s so negative a lot of the time. Her thoughts of the children, even her memories, are usually something awful or annoying or just petty and not very nice. She remembers good things about Richard, but with the children it’s always a grind. Children are difficult and exhausting and doing it alone is a mammoth task, but there were times when I wanted to shake Harriet and demand she find something, anything, good about her life and her children, because surely there must good parts sometimes.

I felt rather bad for her children, mostly because this book is so focused on Harriet that they don’t have much personality. Particularly William. I wanted to get to know William. He’s just a bundle of energy running around in the background. I don’t think Harriet has a conversation with him once. Little Chloe has a few moments, as does surly Mallory, but William gets nothing. He doesn’t seem to mind, but that’s because we don’t ever get to know him.

As for Richard… I definitely wanted to shake him several times, but at the same time I could sort of see how the dissolution of their marriage happened. It’s not easy and it’s not nice, but it is more than one event that led to it all. The betrayal of trust is a big thing, and I’m glad that Harriet didn’t simply get over it, but at the same time, she does bury her head in the sand at times and I was occasionally frustrated at her lack of practicality.

But then again, she has a lot to learn in this book, and it is a definite struggle for her. Personally, I found the blurb a little misleading, because the sexy vet is barely a footnote, and it’s clear from the start that this book is a personal journey rather than a romantic one. Even Harriet’s friendship with next door neighbour Ellie isn’t that important. Instead it’s more of an age-old quest for happiness and an exploration of whether or not money is truly the key.

So it wasn’t quite what I was expecting, but it’s still a good read. Harriet isn’t always likeable, but she is believable and real. Her life is far from perfect and she has a lot of adjustments to make, but her story was an interesting one. If you like your books about real life, with women figuring out how best to muddle through and hopefully find a way to happiness, then you will probably enjoy this. If you’re looking more for a fluffy, romantic escape, this isn’t it. Nevertheless, there’s still plenty of charm to be found in Willoughby Close and I look forward to finding out more about the mysterious new resident in the next book.