Lucy’s Great Escape, Little Duck Pond Café
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 Café 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?
But just as life is starting to look a little rosier, it becomes clear that someone back home – the last person she ever wanted to see – has tracked her down…
Thoughts/Review:
I enjoyed this book even though this is Book 11 and only my first introduction to Rosie Green's books.
In this installation, "Little Duck Pond Cafe" Lucy escapes to the other side of the country trying to escape and start anew. How many times has that happened to me when things get really stressful and I just want to hop on a plane and go somewhere - anywhere. So right away I was able to relate to poor Lucy and what she is going through. Lucy escapes to a place where she finds comfort and good memories from her childhood in the Cornish town of Pengully. I really wanted to be where Lucy is, where she meets Madison and the girls at the cafe. Things seems to be smooth sailing until someone whom Lucy is trying to escape from has tracked her down.
I enjoyed reading about Lucy and I am already getting ready to order the other books in this series. The writing was easy to read, and felt that the story had a lot of heart. I loved how the characters of Lucy, Madison and Gabe were written, and do enjoy reading about their support and friendship. I found the story to be hopeful and relatable. We all need some escape read and to escape with the character as they go through journey of self-discovery, family, trust and love.
Rosie has been scribbling stories ever since she was little. Back then, they were rip-roaring adventure tales with a young heroine in perilous danger of falling off a cliff or being tied up by ‘the baddies’. Thankfully, Rosie has moved on somewhat, and now much prefers to write romantic comedies that melt your heart and make you smile, with really not much perilous danger involved at all – unless you count the heroine losing her heart in love. Rosie’s Little Duck Pond Cafe series of novellas is centred around life in a village cafe. Each book can be read as a stand-alone story. The latest, ‘Lucy’s Great Escape’, is out now. Watch out for further tales of the Little Duck Pond Cafe, including the delicious ‘Log Fires & Toffee Apple Cake’, which will be published in autumn 2020.
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