A Home at Cornflower Cottage Published by Bookouture by Tilly Tennant
on July 1, 2022
Genres: Women's Fiction, Chick-Lit
Pages: 308
Source: Netgalley
Format: ARC, eBook
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Also by this author: The Break Up, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Waffle House on the Pier
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Escape to the flower-filled fields and hedgerows of the Cotswold countryside, to a tiny cottage and a summer that could change everything…
Amelie has lived in Cornflower Cottage since she was born. She did her homework at the scrubbed kitchen table and helped her mum hang washing from the line on the old oak tree in the garden. And when her beloved parents died, Cornflower Cottage became Amelie’s armour against the world.
The trouble is that Cornflower Cottage is too big for just her. With a broken boiler and a leaking roof, Amelie knows she must do something to make ends meet. When she meets Xander, a scruffy, brown-eyed nature documentary maker living out of his backpack in a nearby hotel, Amelie rents him a room, hoping a lodger will solve her problems.
She soon realises that her troubles are only just beginning. Xander’s muddy clothes all over the cottage and early morning jaunts to photograph otters are going to take some getting used to. But when an argument turns into a heart-to-heart, she finds herself confessing how lonely she has been.
Before long, laughter echoes round the cosy farmhouse kitchen once more and sparks begin to fly. But when a face from Xander’s past appears at Cornflower Cottage Amelie’s happy home is shaken once more. Xander has changed Amelie’s quiet country life forever. Should she open her heart to someone who has hidden things from her? Or let him leave, and lose the love that makes her house a home?
I’ll admit that while after finishing this book, I really did love the story–I had a very difficult time with the main character, Amelie, at first. Even with her boyfriend in the beginning–who seemed to be a bit of a dolt–she was very hard on him. Very nagging, just not very nice.
She seemed to be the kind of character who was a bit of a stick-in-the-mud. And the thing is, I’m sure this was intentional. Because Amelie got better as the story progressed. She got more relatable. It was just difficult for me to really get into the story when I didn’t like her much.
I really do enjoy the settings of Tilly Tennant stories, though, and this one was no exception!
About Tilly Tennant
Tilly is represented by the wonderful, gorgeous Peta Nightingale at LAW
