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Cosy Up in Seahaven Bay by Nicola May #Review #SeahavenBay

From the million-copy bestselling author of The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay, this is a joyful festive read about family, forgiveness, and finding your way home for the holidays.   Snow is drifting over the harbour, a twinkling Christmas market is headed to Seahaven Bay, and Rita Jory is about to learn that the most magical time of year might bring the most chaos… but it also brings the most love. Life at the Seahaven Bay Retreat has never been fuller. Engaged to gorgeous farmer Jago, mum to brand-new twins at forty-seven, and with both her grown-up children back under Cornish skies, Rita is running on cold tea, broken sleep and sheer adrenaline – and she’s determined to host the cosiest Christmas retreat the bay has ever seen. But the festive season has other plans. A charming, mysterious newcomer is setting up the harbour market, and Rita can’t shake the feeling she’s met him somewhere before. Her son is flirting with the one person he shouldn’t. Rita’s sure her daughter i...

Books, Life and Everything- An Introduction




 “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”


Jane Austen   Pride and Prejudice

Hello! I thought I'd begin with those words from Jane Austen, as she knew a thing or two about books - and life and everything. I may as well come out and admit it. I like Jane Austen rather a lot. I may be talking about her, now and again. Don't worry though, I also like quite a few other writers, especially Henry James and Thomas Hardy. I am partial to the classics as they are known, but I do intend to broaden out  the books that I read and go for a varied mix. I am going to start with a book I recently reread for the book club I go to : George Eliot's Silas Marner.

Anyway, welcome to this blog which you have stumbled across. Stay awhile and see what you think.



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