Beside-the-Sea Feel-Good Fiction

A reading selection that knows exactly what a holiday should feel like. Phillipa Ashley, Jenny Colgan and Holly Martin have each built devoted readerships on the same hard-won skill: the ability to create places you genuinely do not want to leave. Cornwall, the Mediterranean coast, a Devonshire beach village. The sun is always doing something useful. The complications are real enough to matter. And by the last page, you will have spent time somewhere that felt, briefly, better than wherever you actually are. Enjoy!

TITLES: Phillipa Ashley, 'Return to Cornish Bay' + Jenny Colgan, 'Operation Sunshine' + Holly Martin, 'Summer at Buttercup Beach'