The Winter of Second Chances
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4.1 • 8 Ratings
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
The Winter of Second Chances is the hilarious, heart-warming second book from the author of The Twelve Dates of Christmas, Jenny Bayliss.
Annie Sharpe is the chef of a successful, acclaimed restaurant that she co-owns with her husband Max. Mother to two now-grown-up sons, she’s worked hard for her business and her family. But when she walks in on Max in flagrante with one of the waitresses, she decides she’s had enough, and walks out of her marriage, her livelihood, and the only life she’s ever known.
Suddenly free of responsibilities for the first time in her life, on a whim she responds to an ad asking for someone to caretake a house on England’s south coast, in the picturesque village of Willow Bay, for the winter. It’s a chance for a new beginning, and the village is full of characters. Soon Annie feels at home, and reopens the house’s cafe. And while she spars with the owner’s nephew John, she finds herself getting closer to him too . . .
But Max is determined to win Annie back. Which to choose – an old love, or a new life?
Customer Reviews
A lovely listen
I thoroughly enjoyed this little listen and would definitely recommend.
*Will Annie See The Light*
To the outside world Annie Sharpe has it all. She is an award winning chef who owns a thriving restaurant along with her husband Max who is her first love and a serial cheat. She was pregnant with their twin boys at 17 and they are grown up and deep down inside she is not happy but always gives into Max after he apologises time after time.
On day she forgets something and goes back to the restaurant only to find her husband Max in a compromising position she is so shocked that she mutters a garbled nonsensical response which made me lol and she leaves to stay in a hotel while she thinks about the words that she could have said.
She decides enough is enough and goes in search of a new start. As her husband has frozen their accounts and money is short, until the money is unfrozen she ends up applying to be a caretaker which is for 6 months at Saltwater Nook, a delightful beach house owned by an aging woman full of character but it needs work, there is no rent to pay only that she is in charge of her own expenses. The old lady is staying elsewhere with a friend as an experiment organised by her nephew as he is worried about her safety.
The residents want to keep the beach house in the community but the owners nephew John has other plans for it and he clashes immediately with Annie.
Annie starts to fall in love with the place and its mixed band of characters, she ends up falling in love with the place. Her estranged husband begins his usual wooing to get her back, will she fall for his charms yet again or will she take a chance on a possible new love waiting in the wings….
This is such a cozy read with a lot of substance and I absolutely loved it.