Springtime at the Cider Kitchen
Fay Keenan
Rating: 5 stars
Amazon UK (£2.99)
Synopsis:
Caroline Hemingway can't help but feel a little strange watching her ex sister-in-law marrying the owner of Carter's Cider Farm, but she's delighted Anna's found happiness after the death of her late husband, and Caroline's brother, James. If only Caroline could find her own love story...
Desperate to escape the rat race, Caroline decides to take the plunge and move to the idyllic village of Little Somerby, where she is given the task of opening and running a restaurant in one of the forgotten barns on the Cider Farm.
Opening and running The Cider Kitchen is no easy task, and there are many challenges on the way, but slowly Caroline feels she's being accepted into the local community, and starts to believe she may have found her forever home. But secrets from her past seem destined to haunt her, and not even the attentions of the very dishy Jonathan Carter can distract her from all she's left behind...
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Review:
Review:
This is the first novel I've read by Fay Keenan - and I absolutely loved it. I hadn't actually read the first one in the series, but that didn't matter at all because even though some of the characters from the first one are in this one, it's based on someone completely different and is about their story, so it's easy to read and understand - not confusing at all.
What drew me in to this story was indeed the cover. I absolutely love the colours used - I've always loved the colours pink and green together - and together they make such a stunning and vibrant cover. I also really fell in love with the blurb of the book, I love stories about cafes and restaurants in the country so this seemed like the perfect book for me. I wasn't proved wrong. I just really enjoyed the whole storyline.
The second Little Somerby novel in the series follows main character Caroline - after she moved to the village to manage the new restaurant The Cider Kitchen. Along the way, Caroline thinks part of her past has followed her back to the village in order to make her new life there hell. Caroline does everything she can to stop this from happening but it proves difficult. Then main hero and Carolines boss, Jonathan steps in and helps put things right again.
Caroline and Jonathan hit it off from the beginning of the novel, but decided to keep things professional between them - however this obviously proves difficult as it's clear from the story that they are both falling in love with each other and they have a deep passion for each other and you desperately want them to put their differences aside and get together. This is a really lovely story, although sometimes I found it a bit difficult to relate to Caroline, I really felt for her and what she was going through and I just wanted to see her with a happy ending. She'd gone through so much in her life that you can understand why she done what she did.
Overall, a brilliant novel by Fay Kennan. I will definitely be reading more of her novels. Thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher for a chance to read this novel, which I have reviewed honestly.
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About the Author:
Fay Keenan was born in Surrey and raised in Hampshire, before finally settling in the West Country. When Fay is not chasing her children around or writing, she teaches English at a local secondary school. She lives with her husband of fourteen years, two daughters, a cat, two chickens and a Weimaraner called Bertie in a village in Somerset, which may or may not have provided the inspiration for Little Somerby.
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What drew me in to this story was indeed the cover. I absolutely love the colours used - I've always loved the colours pink and green together - and together they make such a stunning and vibrant cover. I also really fell in love with the blurb of the book, I love stories about cafes and restaurants in the country so this seemed like the perfect book for me. I wasn't proved wrong. I just really enjoyed the whole storyline.
The second Little Somerby novel in the series follows main character Caroline - after she moved to the village to manage the new restaurant The Cider Kitchen. Along the way, Caroline thinks part of her past has followed her back to the village in order to make her new life there hell. Caroline does everything she can to stop this from happening but it proves difficult. Then main hero and Carolines boss, Jonathan steps in and helps put things right again.
Caroline and Jonathan hit it off from the beginning of the novel, but decided to keep things professional between them - however this obviously proves difficult as it's clear from the story that they are both falling in love with each other and they have a deep passion for each other and you desperately want them to put their differences aside and get together. This is a really lovely story, although sometimes I found it a bit difficult to relate to Caroline, I really felt for her and what she was going through and I just wanted to see her with a happy ending. She'd gone through so much in her life that you can understand why she done what she did.
Overall, a brilliant novel by Fay Kennan. I will definitely be reading more of her novels. Thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher for a chance to read this novel, which I have reviewed honestly.
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About the Author:
Fay Keenan was born in Surrey and raised in Hampshire, before finally settling in the West Country. When Fay is not chasing her children around or writing, she teaches English at a local secondary school. She lives with her husband of fourteen years, two daughters, a cat, two chickens and a Weimaraner called Bertie in a village in Somerset, which may or may not have provided the inspiration for Little Somerby.
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