Prompt – A book with a bird on the cover.
Medium – Book
About the Book – Polly Waterford lives on the beautiful Cornish island of Mount Polbearne, running the two little bakeries on the seafront. She lives in the beautiful lighthouse with her boyfriend Huckle and her very sweet puffin, Neil. However, everything is changing on the island – Polly’s boss dies leaving the bakery to her good-for-nothing nephew, widowed Selina moves back to the island (whose husband Polly had a fling with) and Huckle’s family responsibilities start to emerge. Soon, it looks like Polly is going to lose everything she loves.
My Rating – 7.5/10. This book is the second of two, but you don’t need to have read the first to enjoy the second. The story is quite sweet, a little slow to get started but generally a lot of fun! The story is nice and summery, with a beautiful setting – it made me quite sad not to be going on holiday this year. I found the main heroine likeable, but until about 80 pages from the end, a bit of a wet blanket. Her new boss is absolutely awful to her, and all I wanted her to do is to tell him to f*** off! She becomes much less timid by the end of the book, which makes her an all-round more pleasant character to read about.
I was a bit sad that the lovely bird, Neil, sort of disappears half-way through the middle of the story – seeing as he seemed to be quite a central character in the previous book, it was a bit odd that he disappears without trace for a bit. Otherwise, I thought the characters were well rounded and well developed. I liked the interjections of Selina’s therapist which appear sporadically through the novel – Selina is in some ways, a much more sympathetic character than Polly so its nice to have the inner thoughts of an altogether more go-getting character. But, it was a nice, sweet, gentle read, perfect for the slightly odd summer we are having!
Would I read it again? Probably not, I think it will be passed on to a friend or the charity shop!
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