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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...

A Christmas Baby in Goodwill House by Fenella J Miller #Review #GoodwillHouseSeries

 

Here we are with the finale in the historical fiction series by Fenella J Miller, Goodwill House: A Christmas Baby at Goodwill House. It was published by Boldwood Books on August 31st.


July 194

As the war grinds on, Lady Joanna Harcourt knows that her time at Goodwill House is drawing to close. A new chapter awaits, one that she never expected to happen to her – she is going to be a wife and mother again!

Excited with their new arrival and with her beloved Flying Officer John Sergeant back in her life, Joanna hopes that even though war clouds gather, love will prevail, and the future will look brighter than ever for the Harcourt family.

John has just one last mission to complete, before they can be together. But even though John is an experienced and competent pilot, the threat of the enemy is still close. Will this be one risk too far?

Or will their be another goodbye for the Harcourts before they close the doors of Goodwill House for ever?

Don't miss the emotional finale in the Goodwill House series!


My Thoughts

This book is full of the period detail which has given the series such authenticity. I found John’s story to be so interesting as he goes from posting to posting. Joanna goes through a massive change in her circumstances as she decides what direction her life is going to take. Life on the Home Front is a mixed experience as it is full of deprivations materially but brings out the best in the community.

    This is the finale in the Goodwill House series and although it is 1941 and halfway through the war, there is a sense in the story of loose ends being tidied up. You also sense the pressure which everyone must have been under and the unspoken fears that the characters feel at each parting, unable to know where loved ones were actually being sent to or the dangers they were under. Every day normality carries on with tiny misunderstandings betraying the tension that was always there. Joanna’s expected baby represents hope for the future but there is also sadness in the story at separations and the cycle of life and death. 

In short: love and separation on the Home Front


About the Author

Fenella J. Miller is the bestselling writer of over eighteen historical sagas. She also has a passion for Regency romantic adventures and has published over fifty to great acclaim. Her father was a Yorkshireman and her mother the daughter of a Rajah. She lives in a small village in Essex with her British Shorthair cat.

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

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