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  We are going to small town America for Laura Brigg's novel, Sugar and Spice at the Pumpkin Corner Cafe.     The perfect new cozy-up-with-a-pumpkin-spice-latte read that’s meant for fans of Laurie Gilmore and Rebecca Raisin  Professional pastry chef Blaire Reese is blindsided when her beloved Aunt Rachel dies, leaving her the Sugar and Spice Pastry Cafe in Willow Grove. Returning to her hometown, Blaire discovers her beloved family business is in trouble, and—to make things worse—its most-cherished recipe is missing.  Her first love and former summer crush, Evan Hadley, is also back in town, having traded a corporate career to help manage his family’s Heath Acre Farm, famous for its autumn Hay Daze corn maze. Grown up – and with rugged good looks – he’s only charming when he wants to be. Like when he's not tangling with someone over business matters, the way he is with Blaire after she cancels a large order for organic pumpkins.  Her sunshine is d...
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Life's What You Make It by Sian O'Gorman #PublicationDay #Review #BoldwoodBloggers

 

It's Happy Publication Day to Sian O'Gorman for her latest romance, Life's What You Make It which is published today on July 20th. 


Dreams can come true, you just have to believe...

All new from Irish bestselling author Sian O'Gorman

After 10 years in London, working in a stressful City firm, Liv O’Neill returns home to Sandycove, a picturesque seaside village, just outside Dublin to care for her mother after a fall.

Whilst Liv reconnects with friends and family, she is amazed by Sandycove’s thriving community spirit with its artisan shops, delis and cafes - it’s not quite the place she left behind.

As village life begins to creep under her skin, Liv is forced to confront the things that drove her away.

Can Liv balance her past, present and future and find her own happy place?

And will a handsome young doctor help her make a decision about the life she really wants?

Suddenly her old life in London begins to seem extremely unappealing and Liv is forced to use her family’s past in order to forge a brand new future.


 My Thoughts

This is a novel which takes a look at someone returning to her roots and re-evaluating her goals and aspirations.  Liv ran away to London and on returning to Ireland, takes another look at the assumptions she made about herself when she was a young girl. The community of Sandycove emerges as a welcoming and largely caring one. Life has moved on from the place that Liv remembers in some ways and she sees her place in it through a different filter.

    I enjoyed some of the characters who Liv meets. Not everyone has a picture- perfect life and there are some darker moments below the surface. On the whole however, the overall tone is hopeful, with people encouraged to fulfil their potential and look forward with confidence. The ties of family bonds are strong as is forgiveness and sticking together. There are also a couple of four-legged friends who add to the general colour of the plot.

In short: Starting over and following your dreams

About the Author


Sian O’Gorman was born in Galway and now lives just along the coast from Dublin. She works as a radio producer alongside writing contemporary women’s fiction inspired by friend and family relationships.

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Book links: Amazon UK

You can read my review of Life After You here.

Thanks to Sian O'Gorman, Boldwood Books and Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources  for a copy of the book amd a place on the tour. 

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