Following on from A Cornish Summer Holiday, in Rosie Green's series centred on the Little Duck Pond Cafe, we are travelling once more out of Sunnybrook for Lucy's Great Escape.
Lucy never wanted to abandon her friends and family, and
travel to the other side of the country to start a new life. And all without
telling anyone where she was going. But these are desperate times. And finding
herself with a nightmare of a dilemma, fleeing her home town seems like the
only way she can protect herself and those she loves.
The Cornish town of
Pengully Sands holds happy childhood memories for Lucy and seems the perfect
place to escape to, although having little money and no friends, life atfirst
seems grim.
But a chance meeting with Madison and the rest of the Little Duck
Pond Café girls, plus a decidedly attractive local guy who won’t take no for an
answer, gives Lucy a glimmer of hope for the future. Could she really settle in
Pengully Sands and make a living by selling her watercolours?
But just as life
is starting to look a little rosier, it becomes clear that someone back home
–the last person she ever wanted to see –has tracked her down...
My Thoughts
I always enjoy a visit to the Little Duck Pond Cafe
series and to reacquaint myself with all the familiar characters and meet a
few new additions. Following on from A Cornish Summer Holiday, this standalone novella takes us out of Sunnybrook to the
Cornish coast where we meet Gracie again and also, central to this story, Lucy Honey. There are also some of the regulars from The Little Duck Pond who are there on holiday. You are given the opportunity to find out more about Madison who befriends Lucy.
Rosie Green is a great storyteller and the novella format is just right
for these short episodes, each featuring as central, a different
character. Lucy's story turns out to have a few surprises. It is lovely to find out just why she is in Cornwall and to see her self belief as an artist grow. I do so hope that we get to meet her again, perhaps with a visit to Sunnybrook and fingers crossed she brings Gabe with her! Although not everyone you meet in this story is a kind and friendly soul, plenty are and most people are looking out for each other.
In short: A great series to follow.
About the Author
Rosie has been scribbling stories ever since she was little. Back then, they were rip-roaring adventure tales with a young heroine in perilous danger of falling off a cliff or being tied up by ‘the baddies’. Thankfully, Rosie has moved on somewhat, and now much prefers to write romantic comedies that melt your heart and make you smile, with really not much perilous danger involved at all –unless you count the heroine losing her heart in love.
Rosie’s Little Duck Pond Cafe series of novellas is centred around life in a village cafe. Each book can be read as a stand-alone story. The latest, ‘Lucy’s Great Escape’, is out now. Watch out for further tales of the Little Duck Pond Cafe, including the delicious ‘Log Fires & Toffee Apple Cake’, which will be published in autumn 2020.
You can read my review of more of this series here:
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