You Belong With Me
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley February 10, 2026
Author Beth Moran
Distributor: Amazon
ISBN: 9781836334828
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Release Date: 8 February 2025
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Without a doubt You Belong With Me from Beth Moran would have to be her best work to date as she explores the life on the small Ilse of Siskin, located somewhere in the Irish Sea, home to a very small population of people since 1730.
They can hold a grudge for generations but reach out when the need arises, even if sometimes the help is reluctantly given.
Bluebell ‘Blue’ Beddows has sent her entire thirty-three years of life on Siskin. Blue as she is known runs a small podcast about life on Siskin which has attracted a flowing of ‘blupies’ who religiously visit the Isle each summer to partake of the summer fun and festivities.
Blue has also been engaged three times, and now has sworn off men for good, that is until she accidentally runs headlong into Jonathon White, a man sent to the island to investigate the possibility of a rare toad still being on the island and if it still is too be found, could be a big enough reason to stop the development of a large resort, very few on the Isle support.
A second story unfolds, that of Sorrel Beddow, young, impressionable and determined to help the Griffith family who have lost their parents in a Ferry capsize, leaving young Calvin, mired in depression, to bring up is twin siblings.
Sorrel defies the unwritten but firmly held social rules of Siskin to help Calvin, falling in love and realising that by eventually committing herself to Calvin, she will be ostracised from her parents and the community.
As the two stories of love and loss are delicately spun together Blue and Jonathin discover they must dig deep into the Isle of Siskins history to be able to solve the problems of the present, which does not go according to plan, as some really don’t want the past to become a piece of the present at all.
Beautifully written with wonderful depth of feeling You Belong With Me is charming, captivating, poignant and thoroughly entertaining.