Book Review - Coming Home to Hope Street by Marcie Steele

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Title: Coming Home to Hope Street

Author: Marcie Steele

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Author supplied copy

Publisher: Self Published

Publication Date: 18th September 2020

Rating: 5 Stars

Step across the cobblestones, pull back the curtains and peek behind the doors in the second instalment of The Hope Street Series. Catch up with old friends and fall in love with new ones in a story of friendship, second chances and new beginnings.

Livvy has no choice but to return to Hope Street, the childhood home she left over twenty years ago. Along with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Pip, she turns up on the doorstep, hoping for forgiveness from her sister.

Hannah thought she’d never see Livvy again. She’s overwhelmed with emotion but locks away her real feelings. How could Livvy stay away without any contact? And why has she come back now?

It isn’t long before the charm of the market town of Somerley begins to work its magic. Hannah is opening a book shop in the square, adjoining The Coffee Stop, and Livvy’s offer to help out brings the sisters closer together.

But when someone from Livvy’s past arrives unannounced too, he threatens everything she’s built up since her return. Can Livvy convince her sister, and her new friends, that her intentions to return were good ones? Or will her dreams of settling down and being happy again become nothing but a closed book?

If you love an uplifting story, then Coming Home to Hope Street is the perfect feel-good read to curl up with. Ideal for fans of Hannah Ellis, Holly Martin and Emily Harvale.

Bit blown away by just how much I thoroughly enjoyed this book. 

It can be tricky when you are reading a second book in a series, to re-acquaint yourself with the setting and characters, but the second Livvy arrived with Pip on Hope Street and the second Hannah and a bit of her recent events were mentioned, everything came back to me quite quickly. 

It was lovely to be back on Hope Street and to see more of Hannah, but this time the focus is on Livvy, who is her rather estranged sister, who shows up on Hope Street after a 20 year absence, unannounced. 

It's a story about family, and of Livvy's reconnection to hers, as well as making new friends too. Once more I loved the community feel in Somerley and the whole of Hope Street. 

I was continually kept reading to find out just why Livvy had stayed away all those years, the full truth as to her return to Hope Street, and just why is is she didn't want Kieron finding her there. 

Keiron's arrival takes the book up a gear and although I'd been enjoying it before, I found I couldn't be parted from in once things had been shaken up a lot. And as the reader is kept in the dark as much as the other characters, I had no idea who I needed to believe at times, which just added to the intrigue. 

There is a lot to love in this book and I was surprised how fast the pages were turning. It's fabulous and I'm looking forward to the next book in the series already! 

Thank you to the author for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.