New Dreams at Polkerran Point is the first book in the Polkerran Point series and the first I’ve read by the lovely Cass Grafton. Cass is fast becoming one of my auto-buy authors!
I loved this story so much. I’m a sucker for anything which includes a girl giving up city life for village life in Cornwall. Throw in some romance, attractive men and nosey neighbours full of village gossip, and you have the perfect combination. Anna is our protagonist and has inherited her Aunt Meg’s cottage, so why wouldn’t she up-sticks and move across several counties from Yorkshire to Cornwall? And there begins the stories in Polkerran Point, which can’t come fast enough!
I loved that the story isn’t just a plain old romance, there is plenty of mystery and intrigue throughout and Cass kept me guessing the entire way through about, well, absolutely everything! I loved Lauren, who is Anna’s bestie in Yorkshire and is always at the end of a FaceTime call when Anna needs her - and vice versa. I liked the broody, mysterious and grumpy Oliver, but I didn’t love Alex, who quite frankly is an ass!
Cass gives us a different quote from a classic novel at the start of every chapter and they all have some relevance to what’s coming up in the next few pages. I loved this and I couldn’t wait to see which one she came up with each time.
I’ve already bought the next book in the series, and I’ve started reading it. I’ll be along to share my thoughts on that one with you all very soon.
About the Book
When Aunt Meg leaves her cottage to Anna Redding in her will, Anna immediately packs up and heads to Polkerran, the Cornish fishing village where she was so happy as a child. With ambitions to turn the cottage into a B&B, a job working for the enigmatic historian, Oliver Seymour , and the return of her childhood crush, Alex Tremayne , it seems the stars have all aligned for Anna. But Aunt Meg left behind a mystery for her to solve, and a shock discovery reveals she may be living a dream that isn’t really hers to hold. Can Anna rescue the new life she’s made for herself? Who in Polkerran can she really count on in her time of need?
About Cass - by Cass
I began my writing life in Regency England, enlisted Jane Austen's help to timetravel between then and the present day and am now happily ensconced in 21st century Cornwall.
Well, in my imagination and soul; my heart and physical presence reside in northern England with my ever-patient husband and Tig and Tag, our cute but exceptionally demanding moggies.
A bit of a nomad, I’ve called three countries home, as well as six different English counties, but my aspiration is to one day reunite with my beloved West Country.
In the meantime, I write feel-good contemporary romances set in Cornwall and, in doing so, manage to live there vicariously through my characters and settings
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