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R**L
Wow
What an excellent read.Right from the start of the book to the end it keeps you guessing what is going to happen next.Highly recommended
E**Y
nice lighthearted story
I enjoyed the mix of sailing and archaeology aspects of this book. I think it was a nice concept and I love everything Cornwall
A**R
Received , thanks
A good Copy thanks
J**B
Heartwarming
A really lovely book with twists and turns in it .Romance,secrets that need to be told to clear the air.A great summer read
L**A
Nice
This was a 'nice' read, but I didn't enjoy as much as other books by this author. I think this was due in part to me not liking the subterfuge by the lead character. But overall enjoyable.
C**L
Another winner!
I read this whilst feeling a bit poorly and it certainly made me forget myself for a bit. I love the theme of going for your dreams because you never know what life might throw at you. I liked Rose and Finn and the other characters. I had previously read a book with Bo in it and liked seeing her in this book too. The setting is gorgeous, the storyline interesting and I can picture the characters vividly. I love this author and she always delivers a jolly good read. I have seen The Hurlers on Bodmin Moor who apparently made the mistake of playing hurley on the Sabbath and were turned to stone. There's a Celtic cross near them too, just like the Maidens so now I have to see them too!
W**L
Sailing in Stormy Waters
This book is saved from being a nice but predictable romance story by the sub plot devised ingeniously by author Phillipa Ashley. Rose is a successful archaeologist, trained and educated at Cambridge, and now on the threshold of a sparkling and interesting career. But she has a health secret which she has survived with the help of a donor. Using the necessary research she deduces that the donor is a man and lives off an inlet in Cornwall. This coincides nicely with the opportunity to oversee a dig near to the inlet on the Lizard. She is attractive and undoubtedly clever and, importantly and not automatically, a nice person who finds a flat over a shop dealing and selling items associated with superstition and questionable history. She mixes well and gets to know a pair of brothers with mother, all renowned boat builders and in business, when she rescues the one brother from a fire in their workshop. This leads to a rather complicated love triangle which will be conveniently resolved when a previous girl friend of one brother returns from London and her medical practice trying to renew her relationship. This is a thoroughly good read, well put together and always well written, and the final solution is, as in all good novels, saved for the end. A lovely story which I enjoyed but why is so much writing these days about the predictably Oxbridge educated and following professions. Other people are often more interesting and certainly less self focussed. Perhaps a novel about a refuse collector with a penchant for Bach falling for a Duke's daughter with no O levels would even the score somewhat.
D**0
Brilliant as usual
Love the setting. Fantastic storyline but with a twist. The research that goes into her books, particularly this one, is incredible. Having an archaeologist for a daughter also inspired me to read historical novels and this one does both!
R**A
Summer magic
Another summer read, another summer romance, another Philippa Ashey book set in Cornwall.This book tells us the story of archeologist Rose searching for her bone marrow donor in Falford, Cornwall. She ends up getting involved in the village life and their inhabitants. Becoming friends with several of them, including the Morvah brothers (one of which is her bone marrow donor).A wonderful, cute, summer read.I hope that this book raises awareness of the benefits to being a donor.4,5 Stars
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