Rosie Hughes and her ex-best friend Aggie’s close friendship ended suddenly fifteen years ago. It was due to a misunderstanding, but neither knew that at the time. Since then they’ve both dealt with unexpected heartbreak and their life experiences in the best way they knew how.

Now though, Rosie is going to war and Aggie a ghost writer, decides that it’s time to put their differences aside and contact her old friend. The women correspond by email and as Rosie copes with the difficulties of being posted to a desert war zone, Aggie is offered the chance to get away from her dysfunctional relationship with her mother and run a tea room in a remote part of the west coast of Scotland.

Dear Rosie Hughes is told through a series of emails and letters the two friends discover what’s happened to each other since they fell out and each try to help the other work through their issues in their personal lives through their correspondence.

Dear Rosie Hughes made me laugh, many times, it made me gasp in shock at the turn of events and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The author was in the British armed forces and that authenticity certainly came through.