When Ailsa McNeil’s marriage falls apart, an invitation to spend the summer with an old friend in Bellbird Bay offers her the opportunity to escape and regroup. What she doesn’t expect is to meet her friend’s twin brother, the first man to stir her emotions when she was an impressionable nineteen-year-old.
As a young man, Martin Cooper couldn’t wait to leave Bellbird Bay. He has spent the past thirty years travelling the world and has accomplished his dream of becoming a celebrated travel photographer. But it has come at a price and, when his career and personal life take a downward turn, he returns to his hometown to consider his future.
When an accident thrusts the two together, their earlier attraction resurfaces. Torn between the desire to protect herself from further hurt and her renewed feelings for the man she’s never forgotten, can Ailsa find happiness again or is it too late?
A heartwarming tale of family, friends, and how a second chance at love can happen when you least expect it.
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Second
chance romances are one of my favourite tropes, even better when the
location is in a far-off land...
Ailsa
McNeil knows something isn't quite right with her husband and
marriage but is still blind-sided when Bob, who she married over
twenty-five years ago, tells her what is wrong. Awash with emotions,
she leaves their home to have a break with her friend, Bev, in
Bellbird Bay. It's an opportunity to hang out with her old friend and
Ailsa hopes the time away from her home in Canberra helps her to make
sense of the situation she now faces. So, when her friend's twin
brother, Martin turns up unexpectedly, it triggers a memory and
buried feelings from when she first met him as a naive
nineteen-year-old. It's a complication she hadn't bargained on, but
does his reappearance in her life need to be a problem at
all?
Martin
Cooper is back in Bellbird Bay after a ten-year absence. Once again,
he is seeking refuge at his twin sister's home, as he decides what to
do next after his career and relationship crash. Seeing Ailsa McNeil
again, isn't a welcome sight, as he battles to rebuild his life after
the betrayals he's suffered. However, as they spend time together,
maybe they both deserve a second chance at happiness?
Emotions
are running high, in this, my first Maggie Christensen novel. The
adorable and beautiful Queensland backdrop and the charm of Bellbird
Bay create a heart-warming welcome to new and old readers alike. The
characters and the community are a breath of fresh air and definitely
made me want to pack my bags to escape winter. The charm of the
coastal setting creates a distinct contrast to the problems facing
the protagonists. It's somewhere that's both familiar and neutral to
the pair… a perfect place to clear your head and think. As with any
real-life situation, Ailsa and Martin have to navigate around people
they would rather avoid, as small communities thrive on gossip and a
need to know everyone's business. However, everything works out well
with a satisfying, happy ending as both learn to put the past behind
them, as they heal, learn to trust and love again.
Overall,
Summer in Bellbird Bay, is
a
fine introduction to a new, to me author and leaves me wanting to
satisfy my newly
found
craving for more fiction set in Australia.
***arc
generously received courtesy of the publisher***
From the small town in Scotland where she grew up Scotland, Maggie was lured to Australia by the call ‘Come and teach in the sun’. Once there, she worked as a primary school teacher, university lecturer and in educational management. Now living with her husband of over thirty years on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, she loves walking on the deserted beach in the early mornings and having coffee by the river on weekends. Her days are spent surrounded by books, either reading or writing them – her idea of heaven!
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