Novel set on Skopelos (My Mamma Mia Summer)

18th July 2018

My Mamma Mia Sumer by Annie Robertson, romance novel set on Skopelos, the location for Mamma Mia! the film.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is out at the end of July 2018. So it seems fitting that a novel, with ABBA and all things Mamma Mia at its heart, should be published to coincide with the film release! On point marketing, or what!

Laurel has recently lost her beloved Marnie, her Grandmother, who has looked after her since the day her parents were killed in a car accident. Laurel was only two at the time.

Laurel’s parents had fallen in love in Greece and therefore the film, in all its blue, white, yellow and bougainvillea edged joy has come to feature large in Laurel’s life. A pair of her mother’s dungarees somehow seal the connection, a very Meryl Streep item of clothing. Marnie and Laurel had always intended to visit the island because of the film (and they are not alone, there are plenty of tips on the internet how to explore the island with Dancing Queen ringing in your ears!). The DVD of the film is Laurel’s permanent companion.

Thus, Skopelos has to be the destination of choice for Laurel’s first holiday on her own. On the plane, she meets midwife Angie, a larger than life Geordie character, and once ensconced in the slightly odd, dilapidated but somehow charming Villa Athena – run by eccentric Athena – all her cares disappear. Joining forces with Mark Embry (a rather well known writer) and a couple expecting their first baby (and Angie never far away), she is in her element, soon planning a wonderful party (she is after all an event planner) to get Villa Athena back on its feet. This all just underlines the feeling that she is now “at home”.

The parallels between her life with Marnie and events as they unfold on Skopelos are unmistakable. With love on the horizon, the dream of a different life beyond Clapham and London, Laurel has plenty to think about and decisions to make!

A delightful novel if you want to keep the feeling of the Mamma Mia Summer going. It will certainly want to make you dust off your passport and get your vocal chords honed! Kastani Beach awaits you!

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