Oh, my God I love it when a Colgan comes out. I love everything she writes (thought not so keen on the Jenny T Colgan ones) and my heart leaps when I get a notification the next one is ready to buy. Despite writing so many novels Colgan has managed to keep me excited about her next book as she seems to have been able to keep to what makes her writing so enjoyable: rounded, sympathetic characters, descriptions of landscapes and food, funny animals, and absorbing plots. You know where you are with a Colgan!
I think my heart truly belongs to the Island of Mure books, but the Little Beach Street Bakery series has much to recommend it including a portly puffin. In anticipation of this being released, I quickly reread the first three and it was good to remind myself of Polly and Huckle and their strange Cornish village on an island.
This book, number 4, follows familiar characters but introduces two new ones who are the main focus of the story: Maris and Alexei (love Alexei). They are new arrivals to the island and the story traces how one becomes involved in the community of the island rather quickly, while the other - rendered a hermit due to grief - withdraws and hides away. My favourite bit was the skype link to Italy...
Loved every minute - read it in about a day and a half - was like a gorgeous box of chocolates without the calories. (However the chocolate I ate while reading it, unfortunately, did)
If you haven't read Jenny Colgan start with her very early lovely ones: Amanda's Wedding, Do you Remember the First Time, The Good the Bad and the Dumped, for example then grab a copy of A very Distant Shore (Mure no 0.5) and fill your boots with stories of the wonderful Scottish town of Mure.
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Do you have certain authors who you have such a love for their books that you don’t even need to look at the synopsis as you just know that you will love whatever they deliver?That is how I am with any new Jenny Colgan release! I love her uplifting and comforting novels that always have me immersed in her writing and connecting instantly with her characters and her new release Sunrise by the Sea is no exception.Following the death of her Grandfather, Marisa has crumbled under the grief and no one seems to understand her struggle. Even her flatmate doesn’t want her around but when he throws an opportunity her way to escape to somewhere remote and quiet, with no other options available to her she takes the leap to Mount Polbearne.Will the tiny Island be able to work its magic and get under her skin and help her to find her way back out and living life again.Marisa was a well developed character and her struggles that she faced were delivered in a delicate and informative way showing how grief can effect everyone in very different ways and that there is no time scale to mourning. Although the storyline follows a challenging battle it didn’t make this a depressing read as it focused more on healing and new beginnings as well as new friendships and unexpected romance too so it was still an uplifting and enjoyable read.I loved reconnecting with previous characters from the Little Beach Street Bakery series especially our much loved Polly and Huckle, I actually feel like this book has set them up for another book in the series as things are rather up in the air for them and I would love to read another novel that touches on them and Marisa again even if they are just supporting characters, Mount Polbearne is not an Island that or community that I ever seem to tire of.This was another one of Jenny’s books that plays havoc with the diet, cooking and baking seems to be a passion that a lot of Jenny’s characters seem to have and everytime my cravings kick in so I think that Jenny Colgan needs to have a treat box that comes with her next book!Another enjoyable read with a loveable cast of characters and a writing style to lose yourself in this Summer.
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