Book Review - Lucy's Great Escape by Rosie Green

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Title: Lucy's Great Escape

Author: Rosie Green

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Author supplied copy

Publisher: Self Published

Publication Date: 7th July 2020

Rating: 5 Stars

Lucy never wanted to abandon her friends and family, and travel to the other side of the country to start a new life. And all without telling anyone where she was going. But these are desperate times. And finding herself with a nightmare of a dilemma, fleeing her home town seems like the only way she can protect herself and those she loves.

The Cornish town of Pengully Sands holds happy childhood memories for Lucy and seems the perfect place to escape to, although having little money and no friends, life at first seems grim.

But a chance meeting with Madison and the rest of the Little Duck Pond Cafe girls, plus a decidedly attractive local guy who won't take no for an answer, gives Lucy a glimmer of hope for the future. Could she really settle in Pengully Sands and make a living by selling her watercolours in the little seaside town?

But just as life is starting to look rosier, it becomes clear that someone back home - the last person she ever wanted to see - has tracked her down...

Rosie Green does it again, writes another simply captivating book that was impossible to put down. 

Although we briefly meet Lucy in the previous book in the series, this story is all about her, and how she came to even be in Pengully Sands in the first place.   As you get more of the backstory you can't help but feel for Lucy, and just hope that things will work out for her. 

This though can easily be read as a standalone, as the Little Duck Pond Cafe girls only make a brief appearance, this is about letting us get to know Lucy, more than furthering the regular girls story lines.  Which makes it a good introduction to the author and series, if you haven't already discovered her charms. 

Although it had a different feel to the rest of the books in the series, it is no less wonderful for it.  I can't believe what a nasty piece of work Eleanor (Lucy's dad's new girlfriend) is, and that is before you even get too far into the nitty gritty.   

I really felt so sorry for Lucy, and was rooting her on, she has gone from one rubbish situation to one where she should be earning money but appears to be exploited instead.   It's so rough, that I couldn't' help but cheer her on and hope things would improve. 

I've absolutely loved these two summer books set in Pengully Sands in Cornwall, they have been a lovely breathe of fresh air into a series that is constantly keeping its readers on its toes and I look forward to the next book already. 

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