Isla is a top stylist at a prestigious Edinburgh hair salon. She's worked her way up but in doing so has sacrificed friends and a love life to get where she is. Until one day things go a bit wrong. She then finds herself on the remote and quite old-fashioned (or so it seems to Isla) Scottish island of Auchenmor, looking after her aunt's salon for eight weeks. Isla isn't best pleased to be there and we end part one of the book with her getting used to being there.

Like many of these lighter reads, at first I was thinking it was a fairly run of the mill book, but as it went on I started to really get into the story, especially when Isla arrived on the island, like a fish out of water. I think part one set me up nicely for part two.

It's a strange device, this drip-feeding of a story like this, but one which is increasingly popular, and I do quite enjoy the serial style. I will look forward to finding out what happens next to Isla and how she will, I'm sure, come to love being on Auchenmor. From reading the blurb of Rachael Lucas's other books, it seems like Auchenmor features in them too and I am a bit of a sucker for Scottish islands.

This is an undemanding and very pleasant read. ( )