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Today, we're shining the spotlight on the latest from author Nicola May and it's ready to whisk you away (safely) from your current potential self-quarantine state. The cover is an eye catcher (with a a little visitor you may remember from releases past!), as is the story, so without further ado, please welcome today's title in the spotlight via Rachel's Random Resources...
The Gift of Cockleberry Bay
by
Nicola May
About the book...
From the author of the #1 BESTSELLING The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay
All of our favourite characters from Cockleberry Bay are back in this final, heart warming story in the series. Including Hot, Rosa Smith's adorable dachshund and his new-born puppies.
Now successfully running the Cockleberry Café and wishing to start a family herself, Rosa feels the time is right to let her inherited Corner Shop go. However, her benefactor left one important legal proviso: that the shop cannot be sold, only passed on to somebody who really deserves it.
Rosa is torn. How can she make such a huge decision? And will it be the right one? Once the news gets out and goes public, untrustworthy newcomers appear in the Bay . . . their motives uncertain. With the revelation of more secrets from Rosa's family heritage, a new journey of unpredictable and life-changing events begins to unfold.
The Gift of Cockleberry Bay concludes this phenomenally successful series in typically brisk and bolshy style and will delight the many thousands of Rosa's fans
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~~~ EXCERPT ~~~
Extract from The Gift of Cockleberry Bay where Rosa gets a very welcome surprise visitor…
Rosa reached for the remote control between the sofa cushions and started to flick through the countless TV channels; not settling on anything she fancied, she turned it off and lay back with her head to one side. She had enjoyed her walk on the beach with all the dogs and now Hot, completely exhausted from chasing and play-fighting with Ugly, Pongo and the Duchess, was also lying flat on his back with his bits on show, snoring in his bed.
It had been a mild September, but the late-October nights were drawing in and the heating was cranked up high. Rosa had been so busy preparing the announcement about the official launch of the Gift of the Corner Shop that she hadn’t really had time to miss Josh – until now, that is. She checked her watch: it would be 1 pm in New York – maybe she could catch him in his lunch break. She tried him on FaceTime but there was no connection. The last time he had used Messenger showed three hours ago and she also realised that he hadn’t replied to her text from this morning. A sudden and familiar pang of jealousy went through her. Where was he? Why wasn’t he picking up?
Her heart started to beat a little faster. She thought back to Alec’s words of advice for when she started having irrational thoughts; when her fear of abandonment reared its head – a sad result of her childhood in care and never feeling good enough. She must breathe in and out deeply and slowly to help her think clearly. This was the man who had married her, who wanted her children, who had on countless occasions not just said those three important words but had backed them up with even bigger actions.
At times like this before, she would have reached for a glass of wine, imagined every worst possible scenario, drowned them out with alcohol and either texted in a rage or crashed out and gone to bed early. Tonight, she ran a deep bubble bath.
Just as she had sunk into the hot soapy water, she heard the sound of a FaceTime call coming in
on her iPad. She jumped up, sending water and suds everywhere, and ran naked through to the lounge.
‘Rosalar!’ There he was, her handsome husband. ‘Oh my God, look at those pert little breasts. I wasn’t expecting that. It’s not my birthday, is it?’
‘Hello, darling!’ Rosa replied. ‘It’s very dark, I can hardly see you. Where are
you? I thought it was lunchtime in New York.’ As she spoke, Hot heard a noise downstairs and began barking loudly enough to drown out the ring of the shop’s bell and the noise of the shop door opening.
‘Aw, I can hear my little sausage and yes, it is lunchtime in New York.’ Rosa
squealed as the voice of her husband suddenly carried up the stairs. ‘But it’s not in
Cockleberry Bay.’
‘Blimey, what are you doing here?’ Rosa squealed again as all six-foot two of her handsome other half walked in, put his phone on the side and hugged her tiny, wet naked body tightly to him.
‘Getting back into that deep soapy bath with you and then you can take me to bed or lose me forever.’
Rosa giggled. ‘Oh, my god! I love it! Top Gun. Just show me the way, honey!’
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About the author...
Nicola May lives in the UK, five miles from the Queen’s castle in Windsor, with her black-and-white rescue cat, Stan. Her hobbies include watching films that involve a lot of swooning, crabbing in South Devon and devouring cream teas.
Her bestselling The Corner Shop in Cockleberry, the 1st book in the Cockleberry Bay series, went to #1 on Amazon and stayed there for an unprecedented 6 weeks.
She classes her novels as ‘chicklit with a kick,’ writing about love, life and friendships in a real, not fluffy kind of way. She likes burgers, mince pies, clocks, birds, bubble baths and facials - but is not so keen on aubergines.
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