The book is about Scarlett, who is a chess champion – a Grand Master, and Jamie, who is a TV producer who wants to adapt her memoir into a TV show. Scarlett and Jamie have a lot of history, not all of it good, some of it great, from when they were teenagers. There’s a cataclysmic event that happened when they split up, and the effects of this are still reverberating down Jamie’s life, certainly, and possibly Scarlett’s as well.
Bold Moves is about a lot of things – hope, longing, healing, learning how not to be alone. It’s also about chess and playing strategically, and how Scarlett sees the world as move and counter move and strategy. It’s about the stories we tell ourselves about our lives and whether or not we can change them.
These people have been deeply hurt and I genuinely cared for them. By the end of the book, I was desperate for them to get back together. It’s a lovely, lovely story, really deeply written. (For those who need to know – it’s very spicy). As with all of Emma Barry’s books, it was wonderful, I really enjoyed it.
I got an advance review copy through Netgalley.
Jeevani Charika and Rhoda Baxter 
