Finding Summer Happiness Published by Ruby Fiction by Chris Penhall
on May 18, 2021
Genres: Fiction
Pages: 317
Format: ARC, eBook
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You won’t find happiness without breaking a few eggs ...Miriam Ryan was the MD of a successful events and catering company, but these days even the thought of chopping an onion sends her stress levels sky rocketing. A retreat to the Welsh village of her childhood holidays seems to offer the escape she’s craving – just peace, quiet, no people, a generous supply of ready meals ... did she mention no people?Enter a cheery pub landlord, a lovesick letting agent, a grumpy astronomer with a fridge raiding habit – not to mention a surprise supper club that requires the chopping of many onions – and Miriam realises her escape has turned into exactly what she was trying to get away from, but could that be just the thing she needs to allow a little bit of summer happiness into her life?
This is one of those that, I’ll admit, the cover is what first drew me to it. And then I realized it was a Chris Penhall book and knew that I would, undoubtedly, end up loving this book.
Taking place in Wales, this story made me yearn to add Wales to my list of places I must visit. Miriam, is a character I can relate to. She was an amazing woman with stress and frustrations. But, with the help of a cast of characters, Miriam does find her happiness.
This was exactly the read I needed to get swept up in. The characters were charming and realistic, the setting was the cherry on top. Chris Penhall never disappoints.
About Chris Penhall
Chris Penhall won the 2019 Choc-Lit Search for a Star competition, sponsored by Your Cat Magazine, for her debut novel, The House That Alice Built. The sequel, New Beginnings at the Little House in the Sun was published in August 2020. Her short story, Lily McKee's Seven Days of Christmas appears in Choc Lit and Ruby Fiction's Cosy Christmas Treats anthology.
Her new novel, Finding Summer Happiness, which is set in Pembrokeshire in South West Wales was published in May 2021.
Chris is an author and freelance radio producer for BBC Local Radio.
She also has her own podcast - The Talking to My Friends About Book Podcast in which she chats to her friends about books. Good title!
Born in Neath in South Wales, she has also lived in London and in Portugal, which is where The House That Alice Built is set. It was whilst living in Cascais near Lisbon that she began to dabble in writing fiction, but it was many years later that she was confident enough to start writing her first novel, and many years after that she finally finished it!
A lover of books, music and cats, she is also an enthusiastic salsa dancer, a keen cook, and loves to travel. She is never happier than when she is gazing at the sea.
