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Falling in love at Pennycress Inn by Sarah Hope #Review #ThePennycressInnSeriesBook2

I am thrilled to feature Book 2 in  The Pennycress Inn Series  by Sarah Hope . Falling in love at Pennycress Inn was published by Boldwood Books on June 15th. You can read my review of  Welcome to Pennycress Inn   here .  Is this just a summer romance or could it be more? Nicola grew up at Pennycress Inn, in the beautiful Cotswold village of Meadowfield, and now she’s come full circle by landing a job there. After a difficult few months, she’s happy to be back in the place she loves and calls home. The whole village is looking forward to the annual summer carnival, and Nicola is charged with asking the local farmers to lend their tractors and trailers for the occasion. It’s an easy task – until she meets the new owner of Little Mead Farm, who stubbornly refuses to help. On sabbatical from his City job for the summer, Charlie wants to do up his late uncle’s farm and put it on the market as soon as possible. The place might have been in his family for genera...

Sisters Behaving Badly by Maddie Please #Review

 

I am happy to be on the tour to celebrate Maddie Please's latest romcom, Sisters Behaving Badly. It was published by Boldwood Books on November 18th. 

Sisters Kitty and Jenny haven’t spoken since a very disappointing Carvery lunch. Kitty, sixty-two, thinks Jenny is turning grey. Jenny, sixty-six, thinks Kitty needs to grow up!

So when both sisters inherit a farmhouse in rural France, it gives them the perfect chance to heal the rift between them. Except the farmhouse is a wreck, the garden is terrorized by a flock of chickens, not to mention a donkey with a serious flatulence problem!

Kitty is determined to enjoy herself, especially when she meets gorgeous French builder, Leo. Ooh la – la! And Jenny finds the fully stocked wine cellar helps enormously with missing horrible husband Paul – hic!

And as the two sisters begin to repair their fragile friendship, they discover that being bad is actually very good for the soul.


 

My Thoughts

This is a highly entertaining read, featuring two estranged sisters who find themselves in France, refurbishing a house they have inherited. The two sisters are quite different in personality but you begin to realise that the reasons behind their falling out might lie with other people. Their reactions to life in the French rural village are comical, at times and there are plenty of moments of genuine humour as they set about dealing with their builders and neighbours.

    Behind the humour, there is the more serious thread of coercive control and a manipulating husband. The slow burn romance which develops is a satisfying touch and all the characters who you get to meet are lively and vividly drawn. As the two sisters face a crossroads in their lives, there is plenty of thoughts about starting over and having a second chance at relationships.

In short: a lively and amusing romcom 

About the Author

 


Maddie Please is the author of four bestselling romantic comedies, having had a career as a dentist and now lives in rural Devon where she enjoys box sets, red wine and Christmas. She will be taking a new direction in her writing for Boldwood with joyous tales of older women.

 

You can follow Maddie here:  Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Instagram 

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Book link: Amazon UK

Thanks to Maddie Please, Boldwood Books and Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for a copy of the book and a place on the tour. 

Check out the rest of the tour!


 

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