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Maddy's Christmas Wedding by Rosie Green #LittleDuckPondCafeBook37#review

  Here we are at Book 37 in the Little Duck Pond Cafe series! Maddie's Christmas Wedding is the latest novella by Rosie Green.   With the wedding of the year approaching, excitement is running high at the café! But there's just one problem. Maddy is grappling with a secret. Could it derail all of hers and Jack's glorious plans for their big day? Will there actually be a wedding?   My Thoughts In this latest festive story, we are taken out of Sunnybrook, in fact, out of the country and taken for a wintry stay in Lapland. It is Maddy's hen party gathering so some of the Little Duck Pond characters are along too. The story continues on from the earlier Cosy Nights and Snowball Fights . The setting is idyllic and so different to life at home. Everything shimmers and shines in the snow and the temperatures are extreme. Maddy should be having the time of her life but she finds that she has a lot on her mind and a heartbreaking decision to make.     With the men le...

A Cornish Promise by Terri Nixon #Review #FoxBaySagaBook2

 A Cornish Promise by Terri Nixon was published by Piatkus on 3 December 2020. It is the second in the Fox Bay Saga which centres on a glamorous hotel on the Cornish Riviera.  You can read an author interview and find out more about the first in the series, A Cornish Inheritance here.

Welcome to Fox Bay Hotel, where family fortunes rise and fall...

1929, Cornwall. Fiona Fox, youngest child of the celebrated Fox family, is a devoted volunteer at the local lifeboat station, giving all her free time and her energy to the selfless crew. But when she seizes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do more, she sets in motion a chain of events that sparks danger and intrigue at Fox Bay Hotel.

The stranger she brings into her family home provides an unsettling presence over Christmas, and when visiting 'Hollywood Royalty' is drawn into the web, Fiona has to decide how much her promises are worth after all.

But the glamorous visitors have their own secrets, and their own reasons for hiding out at Fox Bay. As those reasons become apparent, Fiona must choose between betraying a close friend, and keeping her word... And lives are at stake whichever way she turns.

Set against the dramatic Cornish coastline, this tale of secrets and strangers will delight fans of Rosie Goodwin and Evie Grace

My Thoughts

I loved the setting for this story, with the glamour of the 1920's hotel contrasting the rugged, dangerous Cornish coast. I was grateful for the brief notes at the beginning on the major characters as I have not read the first in the series. Fiona established herself in my mind from the beginning as you soon discover her impetuous and plucky side. A major theme of the story seemed to revolve around lies and subterfuge. What was being said on the surface could not always be trusted and there are lots of secrets to uncover.

    There is a wide range of characters, some are strangers, others friends, others family members. It is quite a challenge to keep up with them but the book is written in an engaging style and goes along at quite a pace. Anyone who enjoys a family saga series will find much to enjoy in this one

In short: Secrets on the Cornish Riviera

About the Author
 

Terri was born in Plymouth. At the age of 9 she moved with her family to Cornwall, to the village featured in Jamaica Inn -- North Hill -- where she discovered a love of writing that has stayed with her ever since. She also discovered apple-scrumping, and how to jump out of a hayloft without breaking any bones, but no-one's ever offered to pay her for doing those.

Since publishing in paperback for the first time in 2002, Terri has appeared in both print and online fiction collections, and is proud to have contributed to the Shirley Jackson award-nominated hardback collection: Bound for Evil, by Dead Letter Press.

As a Hybrid author, her first commercially published novel was Maid of Oaklands Manor, published by Piatkus Entice.

Terri's self-published Mythic Fiction series set in Cornwall, The Lynher Mill Chronicles, is now complete and available in paperback and e-book.

Terri also writes under the name T Nixon, and has contributed to anthologies under the names Terri Pine and Teresa Nixon. She is represented by the Kate Nash Literary Agency. She now lives in Plymouth with her youngest son, and works in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Plymouth University, where she is constantly baffled by the number of students who don't possess pens.

You can read my review of Penhaligon's Attic here.


You can follow Terri here: Twitter   |  Website

Book link: Amazon UK 
 
Thanks to Terri Nixon and Anne Cater of Random Things Tours  for a place on the event.


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