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    Summer at Shell Cottage

    Written by Lucy Diamond

    Narrated by Juanita McMahon

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    About this audiobook

    A seaside holiday at Shell Cottage in Devon has always been the perfect escape for the Tarrant family. Beach fun, barbecues and warm summer evenings with a cocktail or two - who could ask for more?

    But this year, everything has changed. Following her husband's recent death, Olivia is struggling to pick up the pieces. Then she makes a shocking discovery that turns her world upside down.

    As a busy mum and GP, Freya's used to having her hands full, but a bad day at work has put her career in jeopardy and now she's really feeling the pressure.

    Harriet's looking forward to a break with her lovely husband Robert and teenage daughter Molly. But unknown to Harriet, Robert is hiding a secret - and so, for that matter, is Molly . . .

    "Stuffed with guilty secrets and characters you'll root for from the start...a warm and emotional summer novel." Sunday Express

    'Enthralling drama about family secrets' ? Heat
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateJun 4, 2015
    ISBN9781510004207
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    Summer at Shell Cottage
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    Lucy Diamond

    Lucy Diamond grew up in Nottingham and went to university in Leeds where she studied English Literature. After graduating, she worked in publishing and at the BBC, and in her spare time she began writing children’s books under a number of different pen names. Two small children later, an evening class in creative writing motivated her to try a longer piece of fiction and explore some of her own feelings about motherhood. This eventually became a novel, Any Way You Want Me, and she was thrilled when Pan Macmillan made her an offer of publication. Now the author of fourteen novels and a Sunday Times bestselling author, Lucy writes with warmth and honesty about the joy and surprises, as well as the complications, that love, family and friendships can bring. Lucy now lives in Bath with her husband and three children and writes full-time.

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    • 4/5
      ‘Summer at Shell Cottage’ features an extended family who congregate each summer for a couple of weeks in Devon, in the family’s ‘Shell Cottage’. This particular year there are many stresses, some long-term and some new and unexpected...The writing style is quite informal at times, almost stream-of-consciousness in places. Different chapters take different viewpoints, so we see the family dynamics well. While a few of the characters are a bit two-dimensional and stereotyped, the three main women and the children felt like real people, and I quickly found that I cared about them all.Towards the end it was difficult to put the book down. While some revelations were predictable, there was one shock which I had not seen coming. Maybe the concluding chapter was a bit too neat and tidy, but that's the way I like books to end. Overall I liked it very much. Perhaps some would find it slow-moving or caricatured, but I thought it an enjoyable and uplifting read. If you like character-driven women’s fiction, and are looking for something light and undemanding as a summer read, I would definitely recommend it.