Today we have the second standalone novel in Georgina Troy's Boardwalk by the Sea Series, Autumn Antics. There is also the chance to enter an International Giveaway to win an Autumn Antics Tote Bag and Locket. Details on how to enter are at the foot of this post.
Being a part-time hand model can be tricky, especially when
you have to deal with prima donnas like Megan Knight, a reality star whose
meteoric rise has surprised everyone. Bella is happiest running her tiny
antique business from the front room of her cottage on the boardwalk. To ensure
she has enough income coming in, she also rents out two of her bedrooms and is
hiding a secret crush on one of her lodgers. His name is Jack and he also
happens to be her best friend Sacha’s brother.
If life wasn’t complicated enough, her world-travelling
mother appears on her doorstep on the same evening that Jack’s ex-fiancée
arrives on the boardwalk determined to win him back. Bella has a lot of
thinking to do and soon discovers that not all gems sparkle.
My Thoughts
There are some great characters in this story and I am sure any one of them could be the subject of a follow up book. You cannot help but like Bella who seems to work so hard and is such a good friend to everyone. The setting on Jersey is glorious and there is such an autumnal feel to the story. This light-hearted read feels just right for those October evenings.
Friendship plays a large part in the story and it is interesting to see how Megan, the high maintenance reality star, lets her guard down once she is on the island. The driving force beneath the story is the relationship between Bella and Jack- a real will they, won't they situation. I hope that we find out more about Bella's mother in any subsequent books in the series. I am sure that she has several stories still to tell!
In short: romance and friendship in a beautiful island setting.
About the Author
Georgina Troy is a pseudonym of author Deborah Carr. She
recently signed with HarperCollins' romance imprint HarperImpulse to write an
historical romance to commemorate 100 years since the end of the First World
War. The Poppy Field by Deborah Carr will be published in e-book format on 12
October 2018 and in paperback on 27 December 2018.
Georgina was a finalist in the Contemporary Romance Category
of the Romantic Novel of the Year Awards 2016 (RoNAs) with A Jersey Kiss and a
finalist in the Joan Hessayon Award for new writers 2015. Her first four-book
series, The Jersey Scene and books 1 and 2 of her second series, The Boardwalk
by the Sea are available.
She also writes thrillers as Ella Drummond and lives on the
island of Jersey with her husband and three rescue dogs and is 1/3 of The
Blonde Plotters.
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Giveaway (International)
To win an Autumn Antics Locket and Tote Bag (Open Internationally) just follow the link below and good luck!
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Thanks very much for taking part in the blog tour for #AutumnAntics and for your wonderful review. Georgina
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