Come and spend the summer in a charming village by the sea. Breathe in the crisp, salty air, slip off your shoes and feel the golden sand beneath your feet…
Claudia has never regretted leaving her corporate city life behind and escaping to this piece of coastal paradise. With her cheeky cat Pudding by her side, she has built a community of loyal friends who feel more like family. Her shop at the end of the beach road is full of things that bring joy to locals and visitors alike. Life has finally settled into a perfect, comfortable rhythm.
That is until widower Jason moves to town with his teenage daughter Millie, looking for a new start for both of them. Millie is instantly drawn to the delights of Claudia’s shop and her free-spirited way of life. However, practical architect Jason is less than thrilled about his daughter’s new interests. He doesn’t shy away from telling Claudia exactly what he thinks and sparks fly every time they meet.
But Jason and Millie aren’t the only newcomers this summer and life in the harbour, especially Claudia’s, is about to change in more ways than one. As circumstances throw Claudia into Jason’s path in increasingly unexpected ways, she begins to glimpse what lies beneath his fiery temper and sharp tongue. Claudia was sure her life was complete, but could something have been missing after all?
The only book you need in your beach bag this summer. Fans of Sarah Morgan, Cathy Bramley and Phillipa Ashley will be charmed by this seaside romance filled with warmth, humour and heart.
Healing Waves is her new age shop, a chilled out Aladdin's cave of wind chimes, healing crystals and oracle cards. Nestled next door to Sarah & Evelyn's bookshop 'The Porthsteren Page Turner' Claudia has settled in to her new life and is embracing her inner peace. Trade is picking up and she's beginning to feel confident that she made the right decision to move here. That is until new arrivals 14 year old Millie and her dad come crashing into her world.
Millie adores Claudia's shop, but dad Jason is extremely sceptical about the messages it is sending his vulnerable teenage daughter who has recently lost her mum. He thinks Claudia is trying to influence Millie, unsure of the nature of the items available to her in Healing Waves. The two adults clash on more than one occasion with Millie stuck in between the warring parties. Hostilities run hot and cold but it isn't until a rival shop opens up in competition with Claudia that Jason realises how innocent and well-meaning Claudia's intentions are - and just how much he would miss her if she were forced out of Porthsteren. Small town gossip threatens to ruin Claudia's dream but is it too late to patch up Jason and Claudia's fiery fall-outs?
This is a lovely feel-good novel, perfect to lift the mood which seems to have cast a cloud over many of us during the dreaded lockdown we have had to endure this year. The characters are very well drawn and with many myths about new age healing dispelled amongst the pages I found this to be an informative and enjoyable read.
She still prefers fictional worlds to real life, believes characterisation is the key to a successful book, and enjoys infusing her writing with humor and heart.
Helen is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and The Society of Authors.
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