Today I am excited to share with you my review of this wonderful new release in the Little Duck Pond Cafe series from Rosie Green. Thank you to Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me to join the tour, and for my copy of the ebook in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
Book Description
Lucy never wanted to abandon her friends and family, and travel to the other side of the country to start a new life. And all without telling anyone where she was going. But these are desperate times. And finding herself with a nightmare of a dilemma, fleeing her home town seems like the only way she can protect herself and those she loves.
The Cornish town of Pengully Sands holds happy childhood memories for Lucy and seems the perfect place to escape to, although having little money and no friends, life at first seems grim.
But a chance meeting with Madison and the rest of the Little Duck Pond Café girls, plus a decidedly attractive local guy who won’t take no for an answer, gives Lucy a glimmer of hope for the future. Could she really settle in Pengully Sands and make a living by selling her watercolours?
But just as life is starting to look a little rosier, it becomes clear that someone back home – the last person she ever wanted to see – has tracked her down…
My Review
This is a great addition to the Little Duck Pond Cafe series and I loved it from beginning to end.
Lucy needs a quick way to escape from her difficult life. She is seriously worried about her own mental health and decides getting away from her family and friends is what she needs to find herself again.
Lucy makes a speedy getaway, packing only the essentials and and jumping into her mums beloved camper she is on her way.
Lucy decides to head to The Cornish town of Pengully Sands. It holds a place in her heart from all of her childhood memories of trips there with her late mother.
The only issue is that she has no money and no friends and this begins to tarnish the memories she has.
She does find herself a job but the boss is not want she seems and this makes Lucy feel incredibly uneasy.
Just when Lucy feels like life is really getting to her she has a chance meeting with Madison who feels sorry for Lucy and takes her under her wing.
Madison immediately introduces Lucy to the Duck Pond Cafe girls and Lucy begins to feel happier with her decision to stay in Pengully Sands. They even try and persuade Lucy to start selling the watercolour paintings she has been doing since her arrival in Cornwall.
Love could be on the horizon for Lucy too as she gets to know the handsome Gabe.
Lucy is really enjoying creating herself a new life in Pengully Sands, that is until someone from her past finds out where she is and is determined to to ruin her life. Is Lucy strong enough and will she be brave enough to stop this once and for all?
Wow this is such a drama filled book from beginning to end and a wonderful addition to the series.
This book focuses on the life of Lucy and all that she has had to deal with. The girls from the Little Duck pond Cafe take a back seat in this story, but do provide the fantastic support to Lucy that we have seen in the previous releases.
Lucy was an interesting character to get to know. She is obviously dealing with a huge amount of heartache and she really feels like she has no-one to turn too.
Life for Lucy is hard and it is great to see her gaining in confidence as the story progresses and how much she values the support from the girls around her.
The setting of the book in Pengully Sands sounds simply beautiful and it was great to see more of it in this book.
This is a simply brilliant addition to the Little Duck Pond Cafe series and it was a delight to read.
I am already looking forward to the next instalment in the series from Rosie Green.
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About the Author
Rosie has been scribbling stories ever since she was little. Back then, they were rip-roaring adventure tales with a young heroine in perilous danger of falling off a cliff or being tied up by ‘the baddies’. Thankfully, Rosie has moved on somewhat, and now much prefers to write romantic comedies that melt your heart and make you smile, with really not much perilous danger involved at all – unless you count the heroine losing her heart in love. Rosie’s Little Duck Pond Cafe series of novellas is centred around life in a village cafe. Each book can be read as a stand-alone story. The latest, ‘Lucy’s Great Escape’, is out now. Watch out for further tales of the Little Duck Pond Cafe, including the delicious ‘Log Fires & Toffee Apple Cake’, which will be published in autumn 2020.
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