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Fay Keenan

Fay Keenan is the author of the bestselling Little Somerby series of novels. She has led writing workshops with Bristol University and has been a visiting speaker in schools. She is a full-time teacher and lives in Somerset.

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Just for the Summer

2021

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Snowflakes Over Bay Tree Terrace

2020

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A Place To Call Home

2019

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@lisahobmanauthor, one of our incredible authors,

@lisahobmanauthor, one of our incredible authors, has just opened a book shop (@slightfoxedberwickutweed) 🎉 What an absolute dream! 📚 Who else would love to open a book shop?

We all have dreams but are you ready to live them?

We all have dreams but are you ready to live them? 💕 Escape to hills high above the French Riviera with international bestseller @jenniewriter 🇫🇷

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After tragically losing her husband, Nicola Jacques and her teenage son Oliver relocate to his father’s family's Olive Farm in the hills above the French Riviera.
Due a family feud, Oliver has never known his fathers’ side of the family and Grandpapa Henri is intent that Oliver will take over the reins of the ancestral farm and his rightful inheritance.
Determined to keep her independence from a rather controlling Grandpapa, Nicola buys a run-down cottage on the edge of the family's Olive Farm and sets to work renovating their new home and providing an income by cultivating the small holding that came with the Cottage.
As the summer months roll by, Nicola and Oliver begin to settle happily into their new way of life with the help of Aunts Josephine and Odette, Henri’s twin sisters and local property developer Gilles Bongars.
But the arrival of some unexpected news and guests at the farm, force Nicole and Aunt Josephine to assess what and where their futures lie.

A secret love… A damaged hope… Can love find a

A secret love… A damaged hope… Can love find a way? ❤️
#AWintersWishfortheCornishMidwife by @jo_bartlett123 is an uplifting and escapist read, perfect for fans of Christie Barlow, Jessica Redland and Holly Martin!

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As winter descends on the coastal town of Port Agnes, midwife Toni Samuels’ mood is as dark as the winter clouds that roll in. Toni loves her job as a midwife, but her private life is falling apart. Because Toni is keeping a secret– a relationship with fellow male midwife Bobby that no one can ever know about.

Kind and gorgeous, Bobby is a huge hit at the midwifery centre, but he’s tired of keeping his feelings for Toni a secret – of always coming second best. He knows that Toni’s past is painful, but unless she can be open with her feelings for him, he’s prepared to walk away from their love.

Toni loves Bobby and wishes things could be different between them. But torn between her past and a future with him, everything seems hopeless. Until fate hands Toni one last chance…
Now Toni’s secret wish is in her hands…if only she can be brave enough to take a chance and make her dreams come true.

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Who else wants to open this door?! 🙋‍♀️📚
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A new life... The same old game… One last trick

Happy Friday ❤️ Take a break this weekend and

Happy Friday ❤️ Take a break this weekend and pick up a book 📖

#TheLostGirlinParis by @bacarrjina is a powerful s

#TheLostGirlinParis by @bacarrjina is a powerful story of love, tragedy and incredible courage, about one woman whose life is ripped apart by war and risks everything to seek justice. Out 30th November ✨❤️

As Nazis patrol the streets of the French capital, Tiena is alone, desperate and on the run. After defending herself against the force of an officer, she must find a new identity in order to survive.
An accidental meeting with members of the Resistance gives her a lifeline, as she is offered the chance to reinvent herself as perfumer Angéline De Cadieux.
However Angéline will never forget what happened to her, and will do everything she can to seek revenge. But vengeance can be a dangerous game, and Angeline can only hide her true identity for so long before her past catches up with her, with some devastating consequences...

Paris, 2003.
When the opportunity arises for aspiring journalist Emma Keane to interview world renowned perfumer Madame De Cadieux about her life during World War Two, she is determined to take it. There are secrets from her own family history that she hopes Angéline may be able to help unlock.
But nothing can prepare Emma for Angéline's story, and one thing is for certain - it will change her own life forever…

An absolutely heartbreaking, unforgettable historical novel of war, sacrifice and survival. Perfect for fans of #SuzanneGoldring, #EllaCarey and #CatherineHokin.
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#historicalfiction #historicalromance #historicalsaga #TheSecretOrphan #TheFortunateOnes #MyNameIsEva #TheLostGirlofBerlin #ANewYorkSecret #TheSecretsofLatimerHouse

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What should Sarah read next? 📚 Help our Publish

What should Sarah read next? 📚 Help our Publishing Director, Sarah Ritherdon, pick her next book! Leave your book recommendations below ❤️

⭐️ Sarah's TBR pile ⭐️

PUSH - Ashley Audrain

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read by Philippa Perry

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

Magpie by Elizabeth Day

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six is on my overflow TBR pile (I know. I have a serious book buying problem)

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Airhead by Emily Maitlis & A Year at the Circus by Jon Sopel

The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes - well this is naughty because it’s a re-read when really I can’t afford the time to read books more than once - but I’ll always make an exception for Marian…

Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers

‘It keeps you entranced and makes chills run dow

‘It keeps you entranced and makes chills run down your spine’ 👻 Brilliant review and beautiful fall picture from @diveintoagoodbook for #TheRoomintheAttic by @louisedouglas3 🍂

#SistersBehavingBadly is the perfect uplifting rea

#SistersBehavingBadly is the perfect uplifting read from the bestselling author of #TheOldDucksClub, @maddieplease1 ☀️ Out 16th November! Available to request on @netgalley now 📚

'Maddie Please's latest novel 'Sisters Behaving Badly' is a glorious romp that readers will adore. It's a story of quarrelsome siblings, second chances, a fabulous location and growing old disgracefully. Maddie's warmth and humour will put a smile on your face and leave you relishing Kitty and Jenny's hilarious adventures in a French farmhouse' Bestselling author @judyrleigh ❤️

Sisters Kitty and Jenny haven’t spoken since a very disappointing Carvery lunch. Kitty, sixty-two, thinks Jenny is turning grey. Jenny, sixty-six, thinks Kitty needs to grow up!
So when both sisters inherit a farmhouse in rural France, it gives them the perfect chance to heal the rift between them. Except the farmhouse is a wreck, the garden is terrorized by a flock of chickens, not to mention a donkey with a serious flatulence problem!
Kitty is determined to enjoy herself, especially when she meets gorgeous French builder, Leo. Ooh la – la! And Jenny finds the fully stocked wine cellar helps enormously with missing horrible husband Paul – hic!
And as the two sisters begin to repair their fragile friendship, they discover that being bad is actually very good for the soul.

A very Autumnal #WednesdayWisdom 🍂

A very Autumnal #WednesdayWisdom 🍂

‘I fell so completely in love with this story’

‘I fell so completely in love with this story’ Kara @pagebeforebeauty on #WeBelongTogether by @bethmoranauthor!✨📖 Start reading now for just 99p 🍎

Needing to escape her London life quickly, Eleanor throws her things into the back of her car, and heads to her erstwhile best friend Charlie’s family farm.
But Charlie isn’t there. Instead she finds Charlie’s grieving brother Daniel, her eight-month old daughter Hope (a daughter Eleanor had known nothing about), and a crumbling and unloved Damson Farm.
Damson Farm lies at the edge of the village of Ferrington, with the river Maddon flowing at its heart. But Ferrington is a village divided by more than just a river - it is split in two by an age-old feud – between the Old Side and the New Side. Eleanor has run from her problems, straight into a family and a world that has problems of its own.
But Damson Farm has magic too, and as winter gives way to spring, the old farm starts to come to life under Eleanor’s love and care. The orchard starts to blossom with daffodils and bluebells, and the sound of bees busy in their hives fills the warming air. Can Eleanor bring Daniel and the feuding village of Ferrington back to life too, or will her secrets catch up with her first?
Beth Moran’s books are heart-warming, funny, and completely addictive. Perfect for all fans of Jill Mansell, Julie Houston, and Jenny Colgan.

All Hallows is a building full of memories, whispe

All Hallows is a building full of memories, whispers, cries from the past... Happy publication day @louisedouglas3 ✨ #TheRoomintheAttic is out today!

In 1903 fishermen find a wrecked boat containing a woman, who has been badly beaten, and a young girl. An ambulance is sent for, and the two survivors are taken to All Hallows, the imposing asylum, hidden deep on Dartmoor. The woman remains in a coma, but the little girl, Harriet, awakens and is taken to an attic room, far away from the noise of the asylum, and is put in the care of Nurse Emma Everdeen.

Two motherless boys banished to boarding school…

In 1993, All Hallows is now a boarding school. Following his mother’s death and his father’s hasty remarriage, Lewis Tyler is banished to Dartmoor, stripped of his fashionable clothes, shorn of his long hair, and left feeling more alone than ever. There he meets Isak, another lost soul, and whilst refurbishment of the dormitories is taking place, the boys are marooned up in the attic, in an old wing of the school.

Cries and calls from the past that can no longer be ignored…

All Hallows is a building full of memories, whispers, cries from the past. As Lewis and Isak learn more about the fate of Harriet, and Nurse Emma’s desperate fight to keep the little girl safe, it soon becomes clear there are ghosts who are still restless.
Are they ghosts the boys hear at night in the room above, are they the unquiet souls from the asylum still caught between the walls? And can Lewis and Isak bring peace to All Hallows before the past breaks them first…

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