Book Review: Sleeping Arrangements

Another Book Review!

Title: Sleeping Arrangements
Author: Sophie Kinsella writing as Madeline Wickham
Genre: Romance

Sleeping Arrangements is about two families who go on holiday to Spain after being promised the use of a fabulous villa by their "friend" Gerard. However when they arrive they find that Gerard has double booked the villa and the two families are both there a the same time. 

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           One Family consists of a workaholic named Hugh who hardly ever spends time with his family and feels like he doesn't know his children. His Wife is a glamorous stay at home mother, called Amanda, and their children are called Beatrice and Octavia. They also bring a young Nanny called Jenna who keeps making the situation better then worse again with her "jokes."
           The Other Family is a women named Chloe who had a son named Sam (age 16)  when she was 18, her Partner Philip and their 8yr old son, Nat. Philip is pretty sure he is about to be made redundant so Chloe wants them to have a holiday without thinking about work.
            Philip and Amanda think they are just two families that have never met with no connections but Hugh and Chloe used to be lovers when they were 20. Hugh panicked and left Chloe when she showed him her baby, Sam.
            Chloe and Hugh sleep together and Hugh wants to marry Chloe and start over again but they soon realise that they love their families too much to tear their lives apart. However that is not the only connection the two families have. Hugh works for the bank that is about to take over Philip's bank and therefore make Philip redundant.
Another little story running along the side is Sam and Jenna's summer Romance.

 found this book easy to read and enjoyable but it definitely seemed to be written as a light holiday read. The book was a mixture of romance, comedy and family issues. It felt like the book was covering about 2 weeks of their holiday but at the end I found that it was written about three days so it was very detailed for a 3 day story!
I would recommend this to someone that would like a bit of light relief on holiday. I would rate this book 3.5/5.