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Title: Escape to Darling Cove

Author: Holly Hepburn

Format reviewed: Paperback

Source: Publisher supplied copy

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: 5th January 2023

Rating: 4 Stars

The brand new series from Holly Hepburn, perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley and Katie Fforde. Originally published as novellas, this paperback contains all fours parts of the story from irresistible beginning to heart-warming conclusion. 

Eve has always lived on Ennisfarne, an idyllic island just off the coast of Northumberland and only accessible when tides are low. There she runs a bar overlooking Darling Cove, a heavenly horseshoe-shaped beach named after her seafaring ancestors, whose links to the Farne Islands stretch back centuries.

Logan is a famous photographer desperate to evade the limelight after a difficult break-up. Renting a cottage from Eve, he chooses Ennisfarne in the hope of anonymity but is immediately spellbound by its natural beauty.

The pair don’t get off to the best start, butting heads over Eve’s adorable but boisterous Chocolate Labrador. But when Logan's true identity is revealed, Eve realises her new tenant isn’t quite the man she thought he was. Is it too late to start again or will Logan’s island escape be over almost before it’s begun?

The brand new novel from Holly Hepburn, author of Coming Home to Brightwater Bay, will whisk you away to a sublime seaside retreat you’ll never want to leave.

Ennisfarne is an absolutely gorgeous setting for this latest lovely novel from Holly Hepburn. 

It's a quiet tidal island in Northumberland, and as such the whole pace of the book is rather on the slower side.  But with it you get to really connect with not just the two main characters, but a large number of the people on the island. 

By the end if felt as though I was leaving a community of good friends behind. Easily my favourite characters were Huxley the dog who is a real character and is the one that provides a memorable first meeting between Logan and Eve.  And also Freda who runs the village shop and is wonderful at upselling and managing to get all the gossip, while also protecting Logan when his location becomes known. 

The initial meetings between Logan and Eve set up a rocky relationship between them, as he accidentally comes across as a chauvinist.   However it adds to the colour of the book, and I did enjoy seeing how their "relationship" would progress, and whether they would ever get to together. 

This is a gorgeously gentle story that I really enjoyed.  

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