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From the million-copy bestselling author of The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay, this is a joyful festive read about family, forgiveness, and finding your way home for the holidays.   Snow is drifting over the harbour, a twinkling Christmas market is headed to Seahaven Bay, and Rita Jory is about to learn that the most magical time of year might bring the most chaos… but it also brings the most love. Life at the Seahaven Bay Retreat has never been fuller. Engaged to gorgeous farmer Jago, mum to brand-new twins at forty-seven, and with both her grown-up children back under Cornish skies, Rita is running on cold tea, broken sleep and sheer adrenaline – and she’s determined to host the cosiest Christmas retreat the bay has ever seen. But the festive season has other plans. A charming, mysterious newcomer is setting up the harbour market, and Rita can’t shake the feeling she’s met him somewhere before. Her son is flirting with the one person he shouldn’t. Rita’s sure her daughter i...
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Welcome to Pennycress Inn by Sarah Hope #Review

 

A new year heralds the start of a new series by Sarah Hope. Welcome to Pennycress Inn was published by Boldwood on January 11th.


Laura wants to shake things up. She’s thirty-eight, and has been living in her parents’ house since her divorce last year. Her siblings seem to have got their lives together: successful careers, happy marriages, beautiful children.

Laura’s determined to prove herself. And buying the beautiful Pennycress Inn in the idyllic Cotswolds village of Meadowfield could be just the way to do it.

But getting the inn ready for its first guests proves easier said than done! With crumbling walls, dangerous woodwork and loose roof tiles, not to mention unfriendly locals and even errant sheep, Laura soon fears she’s made the wrong choice.

Luckily a friendly face is on hand in the form of gorgeous chef, Jackson. But is he too good to be true? And just why are the villagers so against her?

Can Laura turn her life around and get the fresh start she longs for at Pennycress Inn?


 My Thoughts

This is a great start to a new series with the arrival of Laura to the idyllic Cotswold village of Meadowfield. She is determined to make a fresh start after the breakdown of her marriage and feels that she has to prove to her family that she is as capable as her siblings of living a successful and independent life. Despite her feelings, they are a close-knit family who are trying to support her with this drastic change of direction she has chosen. Pennycress Inn turns out to be in need of more repair than she realises but she sets out to do as much as she can, despite her total lack of DIY knowledge.

    Laura soon realises that the villagers are giving her the cold shoulder and needs some determination to fathom out why. The only friendly face seems to be her brother's best friend and her childhood friend too, who lives nearby.  She is torn between wanting to see a friendly face and starting completely new. There are plenty of characters who are introduced to make you feel that the series will be well served with interesting plotlines. Family, friendship, community and finding love in unexpected places fill the pages. There is a lot to enjoy!

In short new starts all round

About the Author

Sarah Hope is the author of many successful romance novels, including the bestselling Cornish Bakery series. The first book in her new series with Boldwood, The Wagging Tails Dogs Home, is set in a fictional Cornish village and will be published in May 2023.

 

 

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

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