A small community can hold a great deal. A Cornish harbour where two families and four people have been circling each other since school. A bay cottage sheltering a stranger with a past he has not quite left behind. A Yorkshire Dales village trying to persuade the Tour de France that it deserves a detour. A country sweetshop where the jars hold family history alongside the boiled sweets. Warm, knowing and compulsively readable.
Fern Britton, A Good Catch - Jesse must choose between duty and his heart, and in a Cornish harbour village, everyone feels it.
Holly Martin, Spring at Blueberry Bay - Bella takes in a stranger with a hidden past and finds her careful calm thoroughly disrupted.
Mary Jayne Baker, A Bicycle Made for Two - Lana needs the Tour de France to come to her village, and Stewart McLean is not helping.
Jenny Colgan, Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams - Behind the jars of boiled sweets, Aunt Lilian has been keeping a village secret for decades.
Excellent choice. I have only read 3 books so far but have enjoyed them immensely and I am looking forward to the next book. I have bought from bookhound before and will again. Thank you.
Ian Rankin is always a good read but it is interesting to have one of his other series which shows a different style and for me the best read in the selection.