Welcome to my Stop on the Blog Tour for A Summer to Remember by Sue Moorcroft! I'm so excited to share an extract with you! This book is going to be a wonderful summery read!
What They Say:
COME AND SPEND SUMMER BY THE SEA!
WANTED! A caretaker for Roundhouse Row holiday cottages.
WHERE? Nelson’s Bar is the perfect little village. Nestled away on the Norfolk coast we can offer you no signal, no Wi-Fi and – most importantly – no problems!
WHO? The ideal candidate will be looking for an escape from their cheating scumbag ex-fiancé, a diversion from their entitled cousin, and a break from their traitorous friends.
WHAT YOU’LL GET Accommodation in a chocolate-box cottage, plus a summer filled with blue skies and beachside walks. Oh, and a reunion with the man of your dreams.
PLEASE NOTE: We take no responsibility for any of the above scumbags, passengers and/or traitors walking back into your life…
WANTED! A caretaker for Roundhouse Row holiday cottages.
WHERE? Nelson’s Bar is the perfect little village. Nestled away on the Norfolk coast we can offer you no signal, no Wi-Fi and – most importantly – no problems!
WHO? The ideal candidate will be looking for an escape from their cheating scumbag ex-fiancé, a diversion from their entitled cousin, and a break from their traitorous friends.
WHAT YOU’LL GET Accommodation in a chocolate-box cottage, plus a summer filled with blue skies and beachside walks. Oh, and a reunion with the man of your dreams.
PLEASE NOTE: We take no responsibility for any of the above scumbags, passengers and/or traitors walking back into your life…
Extract from A Summer To Remember:
Clancy had driven for
three hours and it felt like someone else’s hands on the steering
wheel. Someone dream-driving her BMW away from London and the
apartment in Chalk Farm she’d shared with Will. She hadn’t paused
for a cup of coffee or a comfort break, not wanting to leave the car
unattended. It was stuffed with her possessions and she’d lost so
much she just couldn’t lose anything else.
Now she took a left
from the A149 at the sign for Nelson’s Bar, which might sound like
a pub but was named for Horatio, Lord Nelson, born along the coast in
Burnham Thorpe. The bar of land on which the village stood bisected
the salt marshes as it thrust out to sea.
The car purred through
a belt of pinewood, the land rising like a ski slope until she burst
out into sunlight, feeling for an instant as if all she could see was
blue sky. Then the road plunged and cornered between two hedge rows.
And she was there.
She drew up at the side
of Long Lane and switched off the engine. Silence. Through a smeared
windscreen she gazed at the homes peeping at her over hedges clothed
in early summer green.
Nelson’s Bar. She’d
been here only once before, for the week of Alice’s wedding – or
not-wedding, as it turned out – but Roundhouse Row was just as she
remembered it. Alice and Lee had lived in number one, the Roundhouse
itself, a cylinder of white and red chalk stone with an occasional
accent of flint, wearing its conical terracotta roof like a hat with
windows.
Clancy climbed from the
car and stretched. The salt-scented breeze filled her lungs so easily
that it was as if a giant rubber band had dropped from around her
chest.
She clicked open the
garden gate and fished out the Roundhouse key. It turned smoothly and
her footsteps echoed on worn red quarry tiles as she stepped inside
the enclosed porch and then through the inner door. She paused to
take in the ground floor, its central staircase cradled by hefty oak
beams and posts.
Almost as the front
door clunked shut behind her she caught the opening of the door in
the opposite wall. ‘Hello?’ called a man’s voice, and Aaron De
Silva rounded the stairs, dark curls longer than she remembered and
tousled around his face, the line of his jaw shaded more heavily with
stubble, T-shirt and jeans speckled with grass clippings.
Award-winning author Sue Moorcroft writes contemporary women’s fiction with occasionally unexpected themes. She’s won a Readers’ Best Romantic Read Award and been nominated for others, including a ‘RoNA’ (Romantic Novel Award). Sue’s a Katie Fforde Bursary Award winner, a past vice chair of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and editor of its two anthologies.
She also writes short stories, serials, articles, writing ‘how to’ and is a creative writing tutor.
The daughter of two soldiers, Sue was born in Germany and went on to spend much of her childhood in Malta and Cyprus. She likes reading, Zumba, FitStep, yoga, and watching Formula 1.
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A Summer to Remember is out today with Avon Books! Thanks to Sabah for sending me an advanced copy to read and review. This will follow at a later date.
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