What a lovely surprise! What a lovely story! I am so happy i read it! I loved everything about this book, the story line, the settings, the characters... I can't wait to read another book by Tracey Corbett! I don't know why I kept this book for such a long time in my TBR pile because it totally deserved to be read!!! I warmly recommend it to you!!!

It took me ages to get around to reading this. I thought it would be a standard women’s fiction novel and I kept putting it off but I am glad I finally read it. I enjoyed it very much and it had some deeper moments than I initially expected. I will read more by this author.

A lovely story, with a bit more depth to it than the usual romances, and well written. Apart from the flower shop and its charming manager (and wannabe owner) Evie, there are several other relationships intertwined in this book, and the reader becomes involved in all of them. Her love interest, Scott the plumber, has a bit more to him than the usual romantic lead, as he is caring for his disabled mother at the same time as bringing up his nephew. I enjoyed this delightful feel-good read, and would definitely read more from this author.
Thanks to the publisher for a digital review copy.

I really enjoyed this book, it didn't take me long to read it. I enjoyed reading about the flower shop and Evie. I laughed out loud at some moments when she got Marlon her dog and had tears in my eyes when Scott's mum passed away. I enjoyed the chapters about different characters intertwining in the book. I guessed when Scott's mum left him some money that he would try to buy the flower shop but I was pleased to read Evie and Scott get together eventually. I would definitely look out for her next book. Thank you for letting me read and review this book, I would definitely recommend it.

I loved this well written romance. This book is the story of two individuals with not time for love, but love waits for no man. Good plot and characters.

Evie runs a lovely flower shop in Heatherton, which she is working towards buying, and so is very busy trying to build up the business with the help of her trainee Saffy (great character with attitude). Having come out of a bad relationship she is right off men.........that is until she meets Scott

Scott is a plumber so very busy with work and then having to go home and look after his sick mother and 18 year old nephew Ben. He has also been hurt in the past and so is off women......until he meets Evie

A lovely book with a host of characters easily introduced by the running of the shop and with lots of little back stories so we get to know them all. Definitely one that I would recommend for the summer

A flower shop is the perfect setting for a love story to unfold. I got lost in the beautiful armour of a love story between our main characters. I story I differently won't forget-me-not.

I always enjoy books set around floristry and THE FORGET-ME-NOT FLOWER SHOP was an absolute winner!

The Blurb :
Evie runs a florist, The Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop. A new man is not what she needs, but can plumber Scott Castillo fix her boiler and thaw her heart too?
Scott is trying to balance paying the bills with caring for his sick mother and parenting his nephew, Ben, who at 18 is marrying his girlfriend Amy. Amy’s mum Patricia hides her husband David’s infidelity from their hopelessly romantic daughter. Patricia’s tennis partner Martin moans about his inability to satisfy his wife, Laura, who helps brides find their perfect dress for their dream wedding, despite her own marriage being a mess.
Who will fall in love, and who will fall apart? Will the budding romance between Evie and Scott flourish or wilt?

My Thoughts :
There is a lot going on in the book and there are a few charactors to keep track of. I found myself sometimes losing who I was reading about and had to skip back a few pages to update myself. That said it was a great story and I enjoyed the developing relationships, both family and romance. Evie runs the flower shop and takes a liking to plumber Scott, although she is trying her best not to. I loved the decriptions of the flowers, from the shop it felt like such a beautiful setting that we could get lost in. Marlon the dog, who Evie adopts is a breath of fresh air.
Overall this was a pleasent read and hard not to connect with the charactors. Looking forward to more from Tracy Corbett.

Another unbelievable delightful romance, Scot is a devoted and loving son who sacrificed much for his mother after her debilitating stroke, and a loving uncle to his nephew Ben, who was also devoted to his grandmother Nan. It was a trying and sometimes difficult period for them, but their self-sacrifice and deep love for a great woman pulled them through. Then love came knocking at their door, a young love that is true that leads to a wedding and a jaded soul that sacrificed so much still on a lonely path. This story is engrossing sometimes amusing and sad, Evie has developed trust issues she is very distrustful of men after her difficult experience and Scot wasn’t looking for love after his failed attempt, so here we have two jaded souls about to embark on a trial a test I would say. This story was very soul-searching with a sad twist, the storyline is a great one and the characters are awesome, this book jerked at my heartstrings, seriously, it was too close to home.

This was a really cute story which incorporated family and friendship as well as love. It is somewhat different to other chick lits and was actually more emotional than I was expecting. There are a few different relationships within the book all telling their own story and I liked how they were interwoven.

All in all a nice read with good pacing and more than your average chick lit - at least imo.

This was a lovely and easy to read story. It's quite emotional, but it has some really meaningful parts which you will find really heartwarming and enjoyable to read. This book was written beautifully and I found myself being hooked from the first chapter.

I'll be honest and say that sometimes I found the characters a little grating but overall it was a really lovely story and I found that all the stories blended in really well together, and I didn't get too confused by this. I would recommend to all those who love chick lit and romance novels (with a bit of a weepy storyline sometimes!).

Thank you to Netgalley and to Maze for a chance to read this novel in return of an honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publishers for this review copy.

Evie runs the Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop. She is saving hard to be able to buy the shop from the owner who will be selling at some point in the near future. Life is hard and money is tight, but she loves her job. The boiler in the shop is playing up and into her life walks handsome plumber Scott (or Scottie the Hottie as he is more commonly known as!). Evie tries to pretend to herself that she isn’t interested, as she’s been hurt in love before. Scott also makes out he isn’t interested – he has enough on his plate caring for his disabled mother and estranged nephew. Will they ever work out that sometimes you have to let things happen!

This was a wonderful story. It was a bit of a weepy, but also some lovely funny and meaningful parts! I went into it thinking it was another chick lit story, but I was wrong. It didn’t focus purely on Evie or Scott, but on all the other people in their lives as well. We met Laura, Evie’s best friend and Patricia, Laura’s husband’s tennis partner. Both don’t really know each other, but end up with their paths crossing due to their marriage problems. We meet Saffy, Evie’s flower shop assistant and Josh, the funeral directors assistant who pops in to collect the wreaths and always hopeful of getting Saffy to notice him. We meet Ben, Scott’s teenage nephew whose mother has abandoned him in favour of her career and Amy, Ben’s true love. Can they win everyone round to the idea of them marrying at such a young age? We also meet some other wonderful characters, all bringing together this story of love, friendship, relationships and sadness……oh yes and shoes! (Read the book, you’ll understand what I mean!!)

Fabulous writing which kept me hooked from the first page! A new author for me but will definitely keep an eye out for more! Five Stars!

A poignant and evocative exploration of how love defines our lives
Evie is a florist with hayfever, even on a freezing cold Valentine’s Day morning – and her busiest day of the year. Single and alone Evie is wounded and cynical about the whole romance myth she is selling with every bouquet.
This novel explores some of the myriad ways that we feel and express love and lust, both within marriage and outside.
• The love of a son for his disabled mother.
• The love of an uncle who has taken the place of parents for his nephew.
• The love of a mother for her daughter and her happiness, even if it means going against the wishes of her bully of a philandering husband.
• The young and intense love of two intelligent and caring teenagers who only want to be together.
• The love between a long married couple who have lost their way.
Each of these subplots and reflections of love mesh together through the florist shop and impact on the relationship between Evie and Scott, who are flawed and real and honest.
Evie’s backstory with her former boyfriend Kyle can make her sound like a whimp who left her friends and job behind because she did not want to face his controlling nature again. That’s not very credible, but stick with it because like all of the memorable characters in this book, Evie does face her real, internal demons and come out at the other side with a real future ahead of her.
A well written and evocative novel with layers that any reader would enjoy.

The Forget Me Not Flower Shop shines with four separate subplots whose characters are carefully woven together later in the story. Evie is managing the shop and hopes to one day own it. She needs a plumber and calls in Scott, who lives with his mother and nephew after a heartbreaking incident with the love of his life. This story is engaging and honest, I loved the author's prose and characters. Scott is the man that every woman is looking for! Evie was the only character that I really wish had been a little different. She was too snitty and mean to Scott at first and a little too uninterested to me. All in all, I still recommend this book as a great read! I really enjoyed it!

The Forget Me Not Flower Shop by Tracy Corbett is now available from Maze, an imprint of Avon
Books UK. An egalley of this book was made available by the publisher in exchange for a honest review.

I received this book from NetGalley.

This is a terrific book. Let’s start there. I’ll give you more below, but just know it’s a really good book and you should read it.

So to begin, The Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop by Tracy Corbett and available July 3, is kind of a romance, but while romance is a part of the book, it’s really about people figuring out their lives and going through difficult times and finding each other as friends and family. So if you’re looking for a strong romantic narrative, it’s not going to be coming. Doesn’t matter. It’s a fabulous read.

Back of Book Blurb:

Evie is busy running the Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop and praying for an uplift in sales as soon as possible. She might be in the market of selling romance, but for Evie a new man is the last thing she needs!

That is until plumber Scott Castillo turns up to fix her boiler. She’s definitely not interested. But then, why does she keep ogling his rather attractive forearms? She’s been fooled before – she isn’t about to fall head-over-heels for some smooth-talker, right?

When he isn’t trying to balance paying the bills with caring for his sick mother, Scott has stepped in to help parent his 18-year-old nephew, Ben. Between that and working full time Scott doesn’t have time for romance. Until he meets Evie . . .

Love doesn’t always bloom the way you expect but for the customers of the Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop it might just be the perfect time for romance . . .

Set in Britain, the book follows Evie’s journey back to independence after a bad relationship. She’s running her dream flower shop, but she’s got a time crunch hanging over her head. She’s got only so much time before she’s got to buy the shop or lose out on her dream forever. She’s also got a chip on her shoulder and is terribly suspicious of men. Scott is a delightful guy, but bogged down in several crises of his own. He’s given up his business and his life in London to care for his disabled mother and his nephew, who’s mom–Scott’s sister–can’t seem to be bothered. His ex-fiance blew him off when he decided to care for his mother, and so he’s skittish of new relationships, but he’s also eager to know Evie.

Things quickly go wrong for both. Corbett follows each through their separate lives, then bumps them up against each other, often with disastrous results. Each of them are putting up fronts so nobody knows just what is going on behind the facades and how difficult things have been and are, and both are afraid of what the other might think. Gradually their secrets come to light and they share, growing closer as friends and maybe something more.

Woven through their growing relationships and acting as foils, are the crumbling marriage of Evie’s best friend Laura and her husband Martin, the passionate and devoted relationship of Scott’s nephew Ben and his soon-t0-be bride Amy, the troubled marriage of Patricia and David Robinson, and the quirky and delightful courtship of Josh and Saffy.

Layered on to these relationships are the friendships that help teach each of the characters–not just Evie and Scott–how to grow and how to hold firm to what they most need and desire.

This story is a relatively slow build, but the pacing is really perfect and the story so well woven that the end is incredibly satisfying. You don’t get any of those “too-stupid-to-live” moments, and when Evie seems determined to be blind or to react irrationally, Cordelia or Laura or Saffy or others are there to catch her up short and point out that her reality is different from what she understands. But you sympathize with her because you see that those reactions are realistic for where she’s been and she owns her mistakes and she doesn’t hide from growth. The other characters find both heartache and happiness–but in the end, it’s all perfect.

I really enjoyed this book and I look forward to reading Corbett’s next book.

I really liked the beginning! Evie had spunk, Saffy made me laugh, and Scott was someone I could empathize with. But then, when the sexually frustrated Laura and the emotionally abused Patricia come into play, everything went downhill. Quickly. Laura cheats on her husband (yes, she still cheated even if she ended up refusing sex) with Patricia's obvious player of a husband, Patricia lets her husband walk all over her and their daughter, and Evie can't get over her "man issues" long enough to give Scott a chance. She's rude and arrogant, and Scott was that way too. They seemed to treat each other worse as time went on instead of better. I actually would have rather read about Saffy and Josh, than about any of the other characters. I didn't like the ending, except for seeing that Patricia finally gave her husband the metaphorical finger.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. What a lovely story, focused around three main families and a lovely flower shop. It's a gentle story of relationships, but family and romantic, and is just a really relaxed book to read.

A chance meeting happens when Evie calls in a random plumber, Scott to deal with their boiler at her flower shop, she doesn't expect any of what happens next as life takes a lot of twists...

Evie along with Saffy run The Forget Me Not flower shop together and Evie looks into buying it from the overseas owner thanks to a helpful customer. Laura runs a bridal shop where she send customers to get flowers from Evie's shop as they are friends not just in business.

Scott is a plumber who looks after his disabled mum and his nephew Ben as his sister works abroad. He often has to cancel clients from his plumbing jobs due to care needs for his mum.
Ben has a girlfriend called Amy whose plan to get married at their ages of both being eighteen but put up a good fight to both sets of guardians. Patricia, Amy's mum knows Martin, Laura's ex husband to be and so all their lives collide by chance and through each other.

Drama ensues the whole way through this book with chic lit classic drama of divorce, marriage and love taking off and causing a classic case of I can't put this damn book down for one second, it's so good! I really loved Evie and Ben and Amy mostly for their fun yet mature in the teens cases parts of their personalities as it created not just vibrance but memorable characters you will remember for a long time!

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Evie runs a flower shop with her assistant, a Goth teenager, who proclaims that all men are “gits”. Evie hopes to buy the flower shop, but her finances may not allow that to happen.
Scott is caring for his Mother who is an invalid from a stroke. Scott is also the guardian of his teenage nephew, Ben. He makes his living as a plumber and his work is the way he meets Evie. The store's boiler is near failure and Scott attempts to do repairs and keep the boiler operating.
Ben is planning on marrying Amy. Although the majority opinion is they are too young, they plan to go forward with their plans. Amy's parents are Patricia and Richard. The relationships in this family are nearly non-existent.
Laura runs a bridal salon and her husband Mark works in finance. The two of them have a marriage which is circling the drain. Both are working long hours and spending very little time together. Neither one seems truly willing to listen to the other.
This story is about relationships, both romantic and family relationships. Some of the relationships start out as “what not to do.”
Scott is a very good man. He has sacrificed his life to care for the people he loves. His kindness and consideration are amazing. In the beginning, Evie is rude to Scott in epic proportions. She is willing to think the worst of him at every turn. Her history includes family members who appear disconnected from her and a former boyfriend who was less than ideal.
Patricia has determined that having a life of wealth is worth her self respect. Richard is an absolutely disgusting person.
Laura and Mark live as though they do not speak the same language. Communication is mostly each defending themselves and never listening to their spouse.
This story has its ups and downs. At times, I wanted to slap several of the characters. They were not behaving as I wanted them to behave. In short, it was rather like real life, people do not always behave in what I consider a sensible manner.
The book draws the reader into the lives of people who become like friends. My general feeling was that I hoped for the very best for nearly everyone. And I fell in love with Marlon, the dog that Evie adopts. That act alone is a perfect illustration of who Evie is. She is a kind hearted woman who sees the best in everyone, even a scruffy rescue dog.
The story is fast moving and can hold the reader's interest.
I received this book from the publisher through NetGalley. I am voluntarily writing this review and all opinions are my own.