A Cornish Summer at Pear Tree Farm by Angela Britnell
Author Guest Post
Thanks so much for inviting me to stop by your blog today to chat about my new trans-Atlantic romance ‘A Cornish Summer at Pear Tree Farm’. I see we have something in common as we’re both English girls who’ve ended up a fair distance from home because of marrying our own heroes!
When I finish work for the day one of my guilty pleasures is watching a popular English television series called ‘Escape to the Country’. It features people who are tired of city life and searching for the perfect rural property so they can relocate. Although he doesn’t realise it at first my new book’s hero, Ward Spencer turns out to be seeking his own version of ‘Escape to the Country’ when he arrives in Cornwall. All the ex-country music star knows is that he’s desperate to escape Nashville and the negative fall-out from his former celebrity lifestyle. He selects Cornwall for a much-needed holiday only because one of his distant ancestors was a Cornish miner who emigrated to America. Ward certainly doesn’t expect his visceral reaction to the land Bill Tremayne once called home.
Something about the remoteness, the stunning rugged coastline and the slower pace of life had nibbled at the edges of Ward’s tension until the wild idea of staying on crept in.
In the television programme the presenters would never suggest the sprawling eight-bedroom Tregereth House with its two acres of land as the ideal retreat for a single man but when Ward sees a picture of the large solid stone house with its old-fashioned sash windows and Cornish slate roof in the estate agent’s window it immediately draws him in. He’s not a fanciful man but after he discovers the word Tregereth means mercy in Cornish it clinches the sale for him. It’s the estate agent who suggests the possibility of making money from Ward’s new home and he seizes on it not because the hospitality business is something he’s always wanted to do but more because he’s confused about what new direction to go in and this strikes him as something worth trying. When it also becomes a way to possibly help his sister with her troubled marriage that’s an added bonus.
My other main character, Nessa would roll her eyes at the naïve television programme participants who wax lyrical about their wish for a property which includes holiday lets or land for glamping. She knows the reality of the tourist business in Cornwall only too well because she grew up with parents who relied on the short, weather-dependent summer season for their economic survival. Now that Pear Tree Farm camp site is her sole responsibility she’s aware that if she doesn’t make some drastic changes soon and become more profitable she might be forced to look for her own escape in a completely different direction.
If you’re intrigued enough now to want to explore your own type of escape between the pages of “A Cornish Summer at Pear Tree Farm’ it’s available now in eBook, paperback and on audio. Later on if you’re curious to see what happens to some of the characters you’ll only have to wait until early December when ‘A Cornish Christmas at Pear Tree Farm’ will be released.
Blurb
Cornish charm and a Tennessee twist – the perfect pair?
Nessa Vivian is determined to keep her parents’ business afloat, but Pear Tree Farm near the backwater Cornish village of Polgarth didn’t do well as farm, and it’s not faring much better as a camp site. Maybe it’s due to Nessa’s habit of taking in troubled runaways, like ex-soldier Crispin, for next to nothing. Or perhaps her highly-strung sister Lowena is right – caravans named after Beatles’ songs and homegrown pears are not enough to turn the farm into a tourist haven.
Then another troubled runaway turns up, posing the greatest threat yet. Ex-musician Ward Spencer from Tennessee is certainly intriguing, but could his plans to put nearby Tregereth House on the map mean Pear Tree Farm is finished – or does his arrival signal a second lease of life, and not just for Nessa’s business?
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Angela grew up in Cornwall, England and returns frequently from her new home in Nashville, Tennessee to visit family and friends, drink tea and eat far too many Cornish pasties!
A lifelong love of reading turned into a passion for writing contemporary romance and her novels are usually set in the many places she's visited or lived on her extensive travels. Thanks to over three decades of marriage to her wonderful American husband she's a huge fan of transatlantic romance and always makes sure her characters get their own happy-ever-after.
She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Her first novel ‘Truth and Consequence’ was published in 2006 and she’s now had over 30 novels published internationally and several short stories in women’s magazines.
If you'd like to find out more of what Angela gets up to (Advance warning: this may include references to wine, dark chocolate, Poldark and the hunky Aidan Turner) check out www.angelabritnellromance.com or follow her on www.facebook.com/angelabritnell , www.twitter.com/angelabritnell and on Instagram as Angela Golley Britnell.
