I have read several of Lucy Dillon’s books and enjoyed them all, Where the Light Gets In is another excellent book which I found hard to put down.

When Lorna decides to return to her home town and purchase the local art gallery, she feels she has achieved her lifelong dream. She has given herself a year to make the gallery work and asks a local artist Joyce, if she would let her show her paintings. Although Joyce refuses to let Lorna show her paintings in the gallery she lets her to walk her dog Bernard. Over time as Lorna walks the dog, she gets to know Joyce and they build a special relationship.

This is an excellent book with great characters, both human and canine. It is a story of love, friendship, family, secrets and loss which is an easy enjoyable read..

I have read some of Dillon's previous work, and very much enjoyed it. Though I am usually more of a crime/thriller person, there is something about Dillon's heartwarming tales that appeal to me.

This is a wonderful story of hope and love and friendship. The characters are believable, relatable and interesting. The story is easy to read and easy to enjoy, especially if you're looking for something a little light and uplifting.

Thanking you for the opportunity to read this book. Read several others by this author. Really enjoyed this book. Emotional. Family, friendship, love and loss all in this story.

“You know those cracks in your heart, Lorna, where things didn’t work out, but you picked yourself up and carried on? That’s where the fear gets out. And where the light gets in.”
By the time of this quote, I was already in love with Lucy Dillon’s Where The Light Gets In – and my Kindle tells me it’s only about the 2% mark.
This wonderfully written, incredibly emotional and thought-provoking book was hard to put down.
It tackles some big, tough subjects – relationships, growing up and dying to name a few - but it is still a very readable and enjoyable story.
All of the characters felt so well developed, especially Lorna but it is artist, Joyce, who stole the show for me.
Her feisty personality was perfectly pitched and I really enjoyed learning her story and seeing her relationship with Lorna, centred around their shared passion for art but about so much more than that, develop. She felt very real to me.
There should also be a special mention for the dogs, Rudy and Bernard. Lucy captures the relationship between human and animal perfectly.
There’s plenty of drama, which helped keep things moving, and means you don’t dwell too much on the hard parts.
I cried at the beginning and near the end of this book – although it was more a sniffle at the start whereas near the end it was full on ugly crying (thankfully I was on my own at the time).
Don’t let that put you off though because, while is an emotional tale, it is also genuinely uplifting.
Lucy Dillon is another author I’ll be adding to my must read list.

With thanks to Random House UK (via NetGalley) for the ARC in return for an honest review.