I loved this book! It started out with Grace learning her husband Charlie has cheated on her and his new girlfriend is pregnant. While she is having IVF treatment herself. Angry, hurt and upset she leaves her home (HER childhood home) and moves in with her grandmother Clara. Her cousin Hennie also lives with Clara after a nasty divorce.

Grace finds herself a job, meets charming Sam and Hennie also has romantic entanglements. All the while Clara is having her own secrets and is trying to do what's best for her granddaughters. The story made me smile but also blink away a tear. I was happy when Charlie got his comeuppance! And there was a HEA. What's not to like?!

I requested and received an ARC via Netgalley from the publisher for which I am grateful. This is my voluntary and honest review.

Debut novelist and Choc lit search for a star winner, Lisa Hill, begins her debut novel, Meet Me at Number Five, with a scene so gut-wrenchingly unfair that only a hard-hearted reader could fail to empathise with her heroine, race horse trainer, Grace Cavendish. And so right from the starting line, we are willing Grace’s lying, devious husband to get the comeuppance he deserves. But Grace isn’t the only character with problems to resolve, there’s her divorced cousin Hennie, as well as the matriarch of the family, their indomitable grandmother Clara. I loved that Hill gave us three heroines to follow and particularly enjoyed the strength of the relationship between Clara and her granddaughters. As well as being a lovely romance, this is a generational novel about women supporting women – something I always enjoy.

Also, I knew very little about the world of horses, training stables and racing before reading Meet Me at Number Five and enjoyed both the Cheltenham setting, as well as a peek behind the scenes into the way family members are affected by the business decisions required.

Meet Me At Number Five is a strong debut by Hill, with a hint in her author’s note of a sequel to follow. Good news, as I’d love to spend more time with the Cavendish clan.

Thanks to Choc Lit for providing an Advanced Reader Copy, in exchange for an honest review.