Spring at Lavender Bay
Sarah Bennett
Rating: 4 stars
Amazon UK £2.99
A season for change...?
Beth Reynolds loved growing up close to Eleanor's Emporium - a brick-a-brack shop full of wonders on Lavender Bay. Devestated to learn that Eleanor has died, she returns home from London immediately and is shocked to discover that the elderly lady has left the shop to her!
Vowing to restore it to its former glory, she only intends to stay until the end of the season. Although the longer she spends in the colourful seaside town, the more she falls back in love with everything she left behind...and quite possibly, with her best friend Eliza's older brother, local chef Sam Barnes!
Why didn't she notice he was quite this gorgeous before? And will their spring fling be enough to convince her to stay?
Don't miss Spring at Lavender Bay, the first book in the enchanting Lavender Bay triology! Perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley, Rachael Lucas and Hilary Boyd.
Book 1: Spring at Lavender Bay
Book 2: Summer at Lavender Bay
Book 3: Snowflakes at Lavender Bay
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What a lovely start to a new series by Sarah Bennett, I haven't read many of her novels but the ones I have got my hands on I have really enjoyed. As always with Sarah's books, the covers are beautiful and really draw you in. There are so many colours and of course the red shop in the middle really stands out. I love the lavender on the sides of the cover and the sea in the foreground - so stunning and pretty!
The story itself is just as lovely as the cover. The characters are all wonderful and there's a real sense of a tight-knit community in the air! They all seem really friendly and it made me wish I could live somewhere like this amongst friends and people who genuinely care about you. The story follows main character Beth, who finds out that she's been left a shop in her hometown. Of course, this comes as a huge shock to Beth but she's touched that Eleanor (the shop owner) has passed it down to her and vows to turn the shop back around.
You can tell that Beth is happy to be back in Lavender Bay and it was really nice to read about her learning to love her hometown again. And of course, it was interesting to read about Beth and Sam's relationship! Sam seemed like a lovely lad and I was hoping it would all work out well for Beth - but I needn't have hoped! It was a great start to a new series and one that I throughly enjoyed.
Overall, a really enticing and lighthearted novel. Thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher for a chance to read this novel, which I have reviewed honestly.
What a lovely start to a new series by Sarah Bennett, I haven't read many of her novels but the ones I have got my hands on I have really enjoyed. As always with Sarah's books, the covers are beautiful and really draw you in. There are so many colours and of course the red shop in the middle really stands out. I love the lavender on the sides of the cover and the sea in the foreground - so stunning and pretty!
The story itself is just as lovely as the cover. The characters are all wonderful and there's a real sense of a tight-knit community in the air! They all seem really friendly and it made me wish I could live somewhere like this amongst friends and people who genuinely care about you. The story follows main character Beth, who finds out that she's been left a shop in her hometown. Of course, this comes as a huge shock to Beth but she's touched that Eleanor (the shop owner) has passed it down to her and vows to turn the shop back around.
You can tell that Beth is happy to be back in Lavender Bay and it was really nice to read about her learning to love her hometown again. And of course, it was interesting to read about Beth and Sam's relationship! Sam seemed like a lovely lad and I was hoping it would all work out well for Beth - but I needn't have hoped! It was a great start to a new series and one that I throughly enjoyed.
Overall, a really enticing and lighthearted novel. Thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher for a chance to read this novel, which I have reviewed honestly.
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