Sometimes we come across books and know instantly from the cover or title that we are going to enjoy them. Never Too Old For Love by Rosie’s Harris was one of those books as I was drawn to it straight away when I saw it on Netgalley.

This is a beautiful feel-good story of love, loss, family and friendship with well-constructed characters you warm to immediately. A delightful and heartwarming book. Well worth reading. Recommended.

With thanks to Netgalley for my digital copy to read and review.

Mary is in her seventies and has been widowed for three years when she meets Bill. Bill is ex forces and also a widower but when he meets Mary struggling with her shopping he offers to help her carry it and starts a slow burning friendship. Mary is quite happy with their arrangement of Bill taking her out once a week and she returning the favour by cooking him dinner, until her son has a bad accident and his evil wife walks out on him and their young child leaving Mary and Bill to step into the breach

A nice gentle book, slow paced but good to have older characters finding their way through a relationship for a change

I was excited when I read the blurb for this as there aren't too many romance books about older couples. But there is far too much "telling" instead of showing. Every little detail, many that aren't needed for the story to progress. Then the daughter-in-law is too horrid for me to want to read more about her. Sorry but I've had one of those in my life and that's enough.

Not my usual choice of book but i liked the idea of a book about a friendship between a couple of 70+year olds. There are some aspects of the story i found frustrating at times. But other than a couple of particularly annoying characters, the book is a quaint read.

Never Too Old for Love is such a wonderful love story full of endearing characters, apart from Megan that is, what a horrible, selfish person she was!! I'm a great fan of Rosie Goodwin, and this book was such a delightful read.

This is a feel-good factor read with some endearing characters. What puzzled me is that it doesn't reflect the 70/75 year old couples or singles I know. The couple seemed to be entrenched in the 1950's and more like a couple in their mid 80's. They didn't have any technology like an internet phone, mobile, tablet, laptop or PC. Most baby boomers have at least one of these commodities. Bill was a bit of a wimp for an ex-army chap. I don't know much about AMD so that was interesting but scary. It was rather overdone on the arrangements and procedures. What the book clearly points out is that as a couple when one dies the survivor can be lonely as their partner has been their only friend. That makes them feel so isolated. Thank you to NetGalley & Severn House.

Books about older people are few and far between, so I enjoyed this simple story about two 70-somethings who very slowly and tenderly fall in love. At times the plot moved somewhat slowly, but otherwise it was a light, happy read.

Mary Wilson is a widow living independently on her own when one day a man of a similar age to her offers to help her carry her shopping home when he sees her struggling with heavy bags. Both in their seventies they soon become firm friends, him treating her once a week to visits to the cinema and she cooking a meal at her house once a week in return so she feels that she is not sponging off him and is paying her way. He drives her to the supermarket as well and is an overall real gentleman. They both support each other through hospital appointments and through their recoveries, but the friendship is platonic, as both are home owners and used to living alone. Bill is an ex-army widower who soon comes to enjoy Mary’s company and vice versa.
All that changes when Mary’s son who lives nearby is seriously injured in a glider accident. He is hospitalised and will need lots of aftercare and physiotherapy before he can walk again, if ever. His wife callously phones him in hospital telling him that she is leaving him and applying for a divorce, leaving their young son in the care of their housekeeper. She hasn’t got an ounce of maternal feeling in her entire body and she does not want to cope with an invalid. She is a globetrotting career woman bent on furthering herself. She cuts her family ties once and for all. Mary and Bill help as much as they can and Mary begins to realise how reliable and kind Bill is. Her feelings are growing by the day but she feels unsure if Bill feels the same way.
'Never Too Old for Love' is the heart-warming story of Mary, Bill and Mary’s family throughout a very difficult time for their family. It is beautifully written with carefully crafted characters; some really lovely but some self serving, mean and grasping. This story is about second chances, friendship, mutual support and family love and I really enjoyed reading it. I would like to thank NetGalley and publisher Severn House for sending out my copy of the novel in return for an honest review. This is an easy, warm read about everyday people. It’s a 3.5* review from me.