A Cornish Daisy's Kiss by Laura Briggs #Review #ALittleHotelInCornwall

I am delighted to return to Laura Briggs' A Little Hotel in Cornwall for the 6th in the series, A Cornish Daisy's Kiss which brings Maisie back to Cornwall.   

Weeks after boarding a train to Paris in pursuit of her writing dreams, aspiring novelist Maisie Clark is right back where she started: on the idyllic shores of Port Hewer in Cornwall, luggage in hand and heart filled with anticipation for what lies ahead. Except that nothing seems the same as Maisie left it, from her place among the staff at the hotel Penmarrow to her budding romance with groundskeeper Sidney Daniels, who isn’t quite ready to overlook the painful consequences of her sudden departure.

Losing Sidney would be unbearable, but Maisie can’t help fearing it might be true if the rift between them proves too deep to heal. She knows her feelings for him are unchanged, but whether he feels the same remains to be seen—particularly since she stopped him from expressing them in the first place. And to make matters worse, her position at the Penmarrow has been filled by another, there’s nowhere for her to live in the village, and her savings are finally dwindling to a pathetic number – with her book still unpublished after her startling discovery about the author helping guide her towards success.

But one thing which hasn’t changed is the drama and excitement at the hotel Penmarrow, where the staff is awaiting inspection from the dreaded owner Ms. Claypool. Stirring up trouble in the meantime is the owner’s special guest ‘Mad Ludwig’, an eccentric architect whose demands are definitely driving everyone on the staff a little crazy. And then there’s the hotel’s mysterious new desk manager, whose behavior ignites Maisie’s suspicions and causes her to become entangled in yet another form of intrigue—one that could unwittingly jeopardize the future of the Penmarrow and everyone who works there, unless Maisie can find a way to undo the harm.

With everything that matters to her most at stake this time, Maisie faces her biggest challenges yet...and her deepest question of the heart as she confronts the reason she returned to Cornwall and the Penmarrow in the first place.

My Thoughts

I was delighted that this book featured Maisie's return to the hotel Penmarrow and that it reconnected with all the characters we knew. There are also one or two new characters introduced as she sorts out where she is going to live and how she is going to pay for it all. The hotel and its idiosyncratic staff seem unchanged and I am hoping that it is going to stay that way.

    Of course, Maisie's feelings for Sidney seem to take centre stage but it is a slow burning element which keeps you guessing. You do get to find out a little bit more about him through his friends and instinctively, Maisie sees him as someone she can trust. The mystery around the true identity of her favourite author continues but I feel that the net is closing on this. 

In short: Starting over again and renewing friendships.

 

About the Author

 

Laura Briggs is the author of several feel-good romance reads, including the Top 100 Amazon UK seller 'A Wedding in Cornwall'. She has a fondness for vintage style dresses (especially ones with polka dots), and reads everything from Jane Austen to modern day mysteries. When she's not writing, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, caring for her pets, gardening, and seeing the occasional movie or play.

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Book links Amazon UK 

Thanks to Laura Briggs and Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources 
for a copy of the book and a place on the event.