A Cottage Full of Secrets: Escape to the country for the perfect uplifting read

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We do our best to provide good quality books for you to read, but there is no escaping the fact that it has been owned and read by someone else previously. In different time periods, a cottage on the Scilly Islands (near Cornwall in England) brings two women together through family. The wonderful Jane Lovering has come up trumps yet again with an emotional, uplifting and hilarious tale of new beginnings, second chances and healing I couldn’t get enough of: A Cottage Full of Secrets. Both Euan and Tamzin are introduced as insecure people, unsure of their next move, unsure whether they’re allowed to laugh in certain situations or be right about something.

The Cottage of Secrets By Roger Tapley | Used | 1697802017LEE

This glorious part of the Yorkshire Dales comes alive with brief glimpses of the wildlife who make the place their home but running alongside descriptions of the glorious landscape is a sensitive and compassionate story about people who have been so hurt by life that they are having to start all over again. In spring, the plants are low, but they generously fill the beds so that, everywhere, fat cushions of flower and foliage sprawl and spill over paths, lending a generous and romantic luxuriance. Kitchen/diner: electric oven and 4 ring hob, large fridge/freezer, microwave, dresser, table with seating for 8.She might never have met the cottage’s previous inhabitant Stella, but Tamzin can recognise the sadness in her eyes and her air of melancholy. A second storyline is presented, where a young woman, 50 years prior, is trying to escape an abuse relationship. I want to let readers know that this book has some trigger warnings around physical and emotional abuse. There is nothing special about it, no immediate fluttering of stomach-dwelling butterflies, no primeval inner surety that the person before them is ‘the one’, no instantaneous moistening of the panties.

The Cottage of Secrets By Marian Collihole | Used - Wob

Essentially, A Cottage Full of Secrets is all about how these different characters cope with the trauma of having abusive partners.

In a quest to find justice for a community and a culture that is often hated and ridiculed they are placed in grave danger but are determined to fight for what they believe to be right.

The Cottage of Secrets | Book | Austin Macauley Publishers

One aspect of the novel I really loved is women supporting women, something I don’t see nearly often enough in either romance or fiction in general. The island and its inhabitants and the whole lot of lovely characters residing there feel like our own. They both dated Dominic, after all, so they know the kind of damage he’s capable of and how destructive his controlling ways can be. I was surprised Katie showed up at Tamzin's house, although who could blame her wanting to get away from Dominic for awhile. Why we love this property… a tardis like cottage in the countryside, a luxurious dog friendly bolthole with Diss on the doorstep and an awesome kid’s den!The book starts off slow and half way through it the reader is kept in the dark, without having any idea of Tamzin's past or the way Stella's story unfolds. She’s wonderfully down-to-earth and practical, and the friend she rather needs – and she also helps her to get to know neighbour Euan, with the opportunity to uncover the reasons for his less than conventional behaviour, leading to the discovery that they have a shared experience in their lives that they recognise in each other and that slowly helps bring them closer.

A Cottage Full of Secrets by Jane Lovering | Goodreads A Cottage Full of Secrets by Jane Lovering | Goodreads

Patience an elderly spinster leaves Ellie her cottage on the island on the condition she lives in it for a year. Stella’s story is the most prominent one, since a huge chunk of the novel revolves around Tamzin’s attempts to discover more about the woman in the pictures she finds stashed around the house. The secondary characters who come and go all add to the humour of the story and offer a glimpse of a well- balanced and hopeful way of life. The name Cottage Garden is misleading, however, for its range of plants extends well beyond the traditional hardy species found in gardens up and down the country.Tamzin’s new home, Cottage Two, which sits at the end of a pitted track with the breath-taking Yorkshire moors behind it, is an opportunity for her to start over. Patience lives life accordingly to her own rules, but after her adopted daughter dies, she loses touch with her young granddaughter.