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Having fled a relationship and a previous life she would rather forget, young teacher Jennifer Stevens throws herself into a demanding new job at Brentwell Primary. Charged with marshalling a group of unruly eight-year-olds to the autumn harvest festival, her only solace is the peace of nearby Sycamore Park.

Tired of the city, Grace Clelland returns to Blue Sands, the quiet Cornish seaside village where she grew up. There she will meet old flames and old friends, rekindle old loves and ignite new ones in a novel that will have you dreaming of the soft crash of the waves on the shore, the feel of sand between your toes, overloaded ice-creams and smoky beach barbeques.

From CP Ward, the author of the best-selling Christmas at Marshmallow Café, Summer at Blue Sands Cove, and Autumn in Sycamore Park, Autumn in Sunset Harbour is another delightful romantic comedy that will have you pining for quiet autumn days, hot coffee and warm fudge, and the comforting embrace of loved ones.

Lily Markham is having a hard time with things. In the space of a week, she loses her job, breaks up with her cheating boyfriend, and is kicked out of her London flat. With her world crashing down, Lily does the only thing she can: retreat to her charming hometown of Willow River to lick her wounds.

In arm’s reach of The Snow Child and The Light Between Oceans, author Corinne Beenfield brings us a breathtaking tale that reminds us the difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary is often no difference at all. Helen Danner never wanted to return to the empty seaside cottage. Yet six harrowing months after tragedy struck her family, she gets news. Operation Pied Piper, England’s attempt to save the children of the war, is sending young refugees to Wales. So she packs her bags and finds herself at the last place in the world she hoped to be.

When Edith Davies is unexpectedly made both unemployed and homeless, she will take any opportunity going. Soon one comes in the shape of Trenton Manor, a crumbling mansion, which local aristocrat Lord Pickles wishes to sell and Edith jumps in with both feet. Along with her parents’ introverted lodger, Stephanie, Edith takes on the role as live-in cleaner. However, when the discovery of a hidden room reveals a stunning hundred-year-old secret, Edith can have no idea of the rollercoaster that lies ahead.

Having fled a relationship and a previous life she would rather forget, young teacher Jennifer Stevens throws herself into a demanding new job at Brentwell Primary. Charged with marshalling a group of unruly eight-year-olds to the autumn harvest festival, her only solace is the peace of nearby Sycamore Park. As the evenings draw in and the leaves begin to fall, will new friends, delicious autumn treats, and a possible new man on the orange-tinted horizon help Jennifer finally come to terms with her past and begin to look forward into the future?

The second book in the Glorious Summer series from CP Ward, author of the Delightful Christmas series.

Madeline Fellow returns from eight years overseas to Brentwell, her childhood home, just a little late for her own mother’s funeral. Uncertain of her future, she takes a chance by becoming the temporary manager of a quiet little café on the edge of Brentwell’s Sycamore Park. At first life seems to be going well for Madeline, then her ex-boyfriend, Luke Lewis, comes back into her life. Has he really changed from the spoiled, bratty young man she remembers, or hasn’t he?

Life isn’t going well for forty-something Josie Roberts. Her marriage has dissolved, and the narcissistic songwriter ex-husband who took everything just happens to be the current darling of the music industry with a nationwide viral hit. Without a job and with her home on the market to pay for legal expenses, she lets her best friend Hilda convince her to make a move to the south Cornwall coast. There, Josie struggles to find her feet, with her beloved daughter dropping out of medical school, and then the remnants of a reclusive cult sabotaging her attempts to revive a long-abandoned campsite.

The first three books in CP Ward's Glorious Summer romantic comedy series.

After losing her flat to a fire, thirty-something and single Natasha Bright’s fortunes appear to be on the rise when a friend asks her to look after a beachside summerhouse in the quaint Cornish village of Penkoe for a few weeks. Together with Hannah Lucas, her bubbly and equally-homeless neighbour, Natasha sets off for her Cornish paradise. However, the promised glass palace turns out to be … well, less so, it rains endlessly, the village is a nightmare of oddball locals, and the man next-door is a chauvinist pig.