One long summer changed Faith forever…
Faith Coombes should have been over the moon when her long-term boyfriend proposed to her. But instead, she broke up with him. Rob was safe, reliable, nice and … boring. Nothing like the only person who had ever broken her heart…
Unable to afford the rent on another flat and desperate for a new start, Faith takes the plunge and moves back to the village she grew up in, returning to the house that holds so many memories for her.
Hollyhock House, the family home of her best-friend Minel, also belongs to the boy who meant so much to her all those years ago…
As Faith falls back in love with the sprawling surroundings at Hollyhock she also finds herself falling all over again for the only person who has truly hurt her.
Can Faith come to terms with her past? Did she make the wrong decision in breaking up with Rob?
Or does her heart really lie at Hollyhock House?
Summer at Hollyhock House is a charming romantic comedy full of lost loves, missed opportunities and second chances.
ABOUT CATHY
Cathy Bussey is an author, journalist and hopeless romantic who wrote her first book at the tender age of six. Entitled Tarka the Otter, it was a shameless rip-off of the Henry Williamson classic of the same name, and the manuscript was lost after she sent it to her pen-pal and never heard a jot from her since.
Fortunately reception to her writing became more favourable and she spent ten years working for a range of newspapers and magazines covering everything from general elections and celebrity scandals to cats stuck up trees and village fetes. She has been freelance since 2011 and written for The Telegraph, Red Online, Total Women’s Cyclingand other lifestyle and cycling publications and websites.
She is the author of three non-fiction books and her debut and thankfully non-plagiarised novel Summer at Hollyhock House will be published by Sapere Books this year.
Cathy Bussey lives on the leafy London/Surrey border with her husband, two children and a dog with only two facial expressions, hungry and guilty. Her hobbies include mountain biking, photography, wandering around outside getting lost, fantasising about getting her garden under control, reading, looking at pretty things on Instagram and drinking tea.
Review: This was an absolutely sweet novel. It plodded along a little at times but Faith's story was really a lovely tail of second chances. It starts with her breaking it off with her boyfriend who has just proposed.
That may make you think WTF, most people would be thrilled if their guy wants to commit but she feels Rob isn't like the one that got away.
She comes back to Hollyhock House to start over
I truly adored this book and look forward to reading more by Cathy Bussey in the future.
Rating: 4 flowers
Review: This was an absolutely sweet novel. It plodded along a little at times but Faith's story was really a lovely tail of second chances. It starts with her breaking it off with her boyfriend who has just proposed.
That may make you think WTF, most people would be thrilled if their guy wants to commit but she feels Rob isn't like the one that got away.
She comes back to Hollyhock House to start over
I truly adored this book and look forward to reading more by Cathy Bussey in the future.
Rating: 4 flowers
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