A really enjoyable read, I’ve read Imogen Clark books before and was intrigued to see how Izzy Bromley would perform. It was a fairly fluffy start and I was a little unsure but it worked up slowly to a wonderful read and thought process about family, age and expectations.
Thank you for the opportunity to read this book.
Recommend

I really wanted to love this, but I just could not stomach Mel or Emma and it overall impacted my view of the book. The cover drew me in and the description sounded lovely, but the attitudes of the main characters, especially Mel was just not tolerable for me.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the advanced copy to review!

The Coach Trip by Izzy Bromley was recommended to me by a bookish buddy of mine and as always, she was right that I would enjoy this one! Full disclosure it took me a bit to get into this one and I did end up jumping back and forth between the text and the audiobook.

I really enjoyed the narrator for this one and feel it's worth mentioning even in my review of the e-book, because it brought things to life for me in a different way.

Initially, I found Emma frustrating and whiny. I also found her friend Mel to be just rude when it came to traveling with a group of older folks. It as particularly aggravating, because Emma wanted to accompany her grandma on this trip, because it was supposed to be a special trip for her grandparents, before her grandpa passed. Once I pushed past my initial dislike for both main characters, I was able to actually really enjoy the book, because they both get their heads on straight and start to see how amazing the people on their coach trip are and for lack of a better phrase, they stop to smell the roses.

I loved the powerful relationships built, mended, and extended from this single coach trip. There was a lot of talk about love and loss, which hit me pretty hard. If you are a fun of Izzy Bromley, I recommend you check this out!

A sweet story about different generations and preconceptions about how a different age group thinks and does what they do. The main character promises a trip away for her birthday with her friend/flatmate after forgetting to give her a valentines card from her boyfriend.
She also offers to accompany her granma on a coachtrip when her grandfather passed away. Unfortnately both events are in the same week. Then both girls go on the coach holiday , firstly feeling that it is not for them as they are the youngest by at least 40 years. However the coach trip is both eventful and educational. Sometimes funny, sometimes thought provoking and sometimes tragic. As they get to know each other, there is more understanding and friendships develop.
A lovely heartwarming read . Thanks to Net Galley for tge ARC in exchange for an honest review

Brilliant, uplifting and very touching. I couldn't put this book down. I think the smaller sized chapters are such a treat, because it's so much easier to read broken up into more manageable segments. I really loved how we got to know each character more, as the story progressed. I would have liked to know more about what happened after the coach trip. I felt close to tears at a few points, but the epilogue really got me. I would definitely recommend it.

Oh my word what a fabulous book. So much so I want to book a coach holiday. Phyllis has booked a coach touring holiday to celebrate her golden wedding anniversary but her husband dies so her granddaughter snd her friend go instead. They start off as individual groups but as the trip goes on they get together more and more. There’s one shock exit. There’s a new city almost every day. Everyone seems to have a secret which will finally come out.
They get to scatter grandads ashes. They even have a reunion a year later which not everyone attends. I loved this book.

A well written story. Poor young Emma promises her best freind a birthday to remember but it clashes with her promise to go on holiday with her gran on an OAP coach trip. So you can imagine the clash between the different ages.
The book does make you think about both ages and they appear to each other.
I loved it!

A lovely book, full of love, fun and a little sadness. If you are a grandparent you will love reading and discovering how a grandmother and her granddaughter connect after losing that special person in their lives and go on a coach trip adventure together. Highly recommend

Read and reviewed in exchange for a free copy from NetGalley. I enjoyed the concept and storyline of this book, but for the first half, my enjoyment was hampered by my dislike of the two main characters, Emma and Mel, and their attitudes towards the elderly people they were travelling with. I warmed to them as the book went on, which made me more invested in the story more, and meant I enjoyed it much more.

Loved this book.
Emma and her friend Mel join Emma's gran on the coach tour that she had planned to take with her husband to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. What could be better than 2 twenty somethings and a coach load of old people!?!
Lots of preconceptions are challenged and new friendships formed.
Really good story!

What a wonderful story this was. Starting out as a way to help her grandmother after the loss of her husband this became a wonderful story of a granddaughter learning so much from the older generation. I couldn't put it down. Emma was such a lovely character and loved when she had too much to drink and was late for the coach the next morning. That was one coach trip I would have loved to have traveled on. It was full of fun, some sadness and of course romance.

The cover caught my attention and was really excited to read this book by Izzy Bromley. If you want a book that feels like a warm hug - look no further. Imagine taking a sightseeing bus trip with your best friend and a group of octogenarians. Emma is escorting her grandmother on a trip she was to have taken with her recently departed husband. But there's also the matter of how Emma screwed up her best friends Valentine Day surprise. Add to this delightful cast of characters an equally interesting mix of traveling companions. Such a group allows for several interesting plots that Izzy masterfully mingles, holding you in such suspense that you don't want the story(ies) to end. A delightful read. Really enjoyable to help you get out a reading slump too!

thank you to Amazon Publishing UK, Lake Union Publishing. & Netgalley for allowing me to read and review this book

An easy read this was a heartwarming story that I'm sure will appeal to a lot of readers. However as a 70 year old myself with friends of similar age I felt the characterisation of elderly people quite patronising. I definitely wouldn't recommend it to my friends.

Emma owes Mel for messing up Mel's valentine treat organised by her new boyfriend. To make it up she promises to do something special for Mel's birthday. Emma also promises to go on a coach trip with her Grandma, who had been due to do the trip with her late husband - but the dates clash!
She talks Mel into going on the coach trip but omits to tell her that the other passengers are all in their 70's.
An eye-opening read of two generations learning to appreciate and get on with one another.

The Coach Trip is a warm, witty and wise story about friendship, compassion and learning to live fully.

Mel and Emma are best friends. But Emma has let Mel down and to make up for it she promises her a girly weekend in Edinburgh. The only trouble is, Emma's also promised to join her Grandma on a coach trip to scatter her Granddad's ashes.

When Mel suggests joining them, Emma doesn't reveal it is actually a coach trip for the older generation but despite their assumptions and annoyance at the start, both generations discover that they have more in common than they thought and that they can learn a lot from one another.

This book made me laugh out loud, it made me feel fuzzy and warm and it's definitely a cozy, feelgood read.

Delightful debut for this author under the name Izzy Bromley.

This is the story of Emma, who makes a terrible gaffe, ruining housemate and best friend Mel’s Valentine’s Day treat from her boyfriend. She vows to make up for it by planning a fabulous birthday weekend for Mel instead. Only she’s got a bit muddled there too and finds that she’s
double booked Mel’s trip with a trip accompanying her grandma, Phyllis, to Edinburgh. Phyllis had been due to go with her late husband so Emma offered to take his place so Phyllis could revisit the places of their honeymoon.

Luckily, Mel is an understanding friend and suggests they combine the two things. Mel will come with Emma and Phyllis on the coach trip and they’ll end it with a birthday celebration in Edinburgh. There’ll probably even be some hunky Aussie backpackers making the trip too…

Only there won’t, as this is a tour for pensioners and the only singletons are at least 40 years older than Mel…

What follows is a charming trip up the north east coast with a group of pensioners that Mel and Emma find themselves getting quite irritated with. They’re awfully dithery and slow and really do say the most annoying things sometimes… but as the trip progresses, secrets are revealed, confidences shared, experiences had and life-changing events befall them.

This is a lovely tale of friendships new and old, the importance of not judging books by their covers and finding joy in companionship. It deals with some tough subjects with a light touch and is a thoroughly enjoyable story.

Being somewhere in age between both sets of travellers I’m not sure how dismissive of old folk younger folk are, and vice versa but that doesn’t really matter.

I really loved it and am looking forward to Izzy’s next story.

Also, that escape room sounded great!

Quite heartwarming and funny and certainly easy to read. Some of the characters were less than likable, particularly Mel who I did not take to at all. Whilst overall I enjoyed the book it was rather narrow in its views on older people and bus holidays and it did finish very abruptly.

A fun but emotional read, highlights some of the issues with old age and how they are judged by younger people. I would have liked to see more at the end about what happened next.
I liked the descriptions of the places the visit along the way.

Emma and her best friend Mel end up going on a coach trip with a gathering of old age pensioners with many adventures on the way.
As they journey , there are many encounters with the older travellers.
Will it be a trip to remember?
A well written and funny book. I really enjoyed it.

This was a sweet, cosy read, with a bit of an unexpected and sad ending. I did enjoy it a lot, but struggled a bit with Mel and Emma’s falling outs. Thank you to the publisher for the opportunity to read and review.