A beautifully written romance, Summer Days at Sunrise Farm was exactly what I needed when I picked up this book.

As the story unfolds we find veterinary nurse Helen Steer working at Animal Ark. It's the beginning of summer and everything is looking up roses until jealousy creeps into her life. Her best friend has gone traveling and left her behind. But soon a new vet comes to town and the unexpected happens.

This is a charming feel-good story and I can't wait to read more by this author in the future.

This book had my with the cover and then it just continues to keep me hooked.
Feels like a nice warm hug reading this book, and we all need one of those right now.

Always great to be back in Welford amongst my friends at Animal Ark.

This time the story focuses on Helen, and her relationship with Seb which has become a bit on the rocky side.

We also get to fall in love with Isla, a new rescue dog that Helen can't resist helping.

For fans of the series don't worry we see plenty of Mandy Hope and the rest of the hope clan, just from a different angle, and it is great catching up with them too.

I loved all the animals as always, and also the real sense of community when something happens and everyone bands together to help.

I adore this series and am already eager to start the next one, well once its out!

Full of charm, plenty of enjoyable moments, cute animals and the course of true love not running smoothly, this is another fantastic addition to the series, and one I whole heartedly recommend.

Thanks to Hodder and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

A lovely story that keeps you hooked from the beginning right through to the end. You eel as though you know the characters and feel sad to leave them behind. Definitely recommended.

Thanks to NetGalley for an early copy in return for an honest review
A very good read and one I can highly recommend to others.
I could not put this down.
Thoroughly enjoyable with an amazing cast of characters that you cannot help but engage with.

This is the 5th book in this series and I had read a couple of the others but not all of them. I will however now seek them out to read as I think it might add to the enjoyment even more. This one focuses on Helen, a vet nurse who loves her job and home and will fight to keep them. While the story may not be new it was engaging and I especially liked the veterinary procedure scenes. It doesn't gloss over the life of the vets and that this is a focus is a big pull. I highly recommend.

I love this series more with every book I read. This one follows the vet nurse Helen and the plans she has for saving Sunrise Farm. It has a real sense of a community pulling together to help out those in need. It's like meeting up with friends when you lose yourself in a new book. Everything feels so familiar you really feel as though you have turned up to help with everyone else. The animal characters are also wonderful.

Loved this book. Great characters, easy read, uplifting, funny, romantic and charming. A really nice story that is the perfect sumer read.

Beautifully written with a lovely storyline. If you have a love for animals you will really find that you will enjoy it even more, but I recommend everyone to read this. It is sure to be a WOW to everyone. I wont give any of the story away so just go out and buy the book, it wont disappoint anyone.

Enjoyable read, bit predictable at times, but a nice summer read. It was a bit slow to start and I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the others in the series, but was a nice entertaining story

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

When her best friend leaves Welford for a 3 month trip around Europe Helen begins to question her simple life. Whilst she loves working at Animal Ark, things with boyfriend Seb are plodding along and Helen fancies some adventure. Floating the idea of a trip to India, Helen is shocked to discover Seb has more permanent, less exciting plans for their future. With talks of moving and mortgages it seems their ideals are poles apart, and they soon decide to go their separate ways.

Local heartthrob vet, Toby, is only too happy to step into Helen's life and offer the thrill she seems to desperately seek. But when her home at Sunrise Fruit Farm is in jeopardy will Helen realise what she had all along?

The fifth instalment in the Hope Meadows series focuses on veterinary nurse Helen Steer. As a secondary character in the previous books, I've always liked Helen and it was nice to learn a little more about her this time around. It was obvious from the start that she was beginning to doubt her relationship with Seb and the first few chapters were ultimately their undoing.

What surprised me in this story was that Daniels seemed to show an uglier side to the other characters. This is hard to explain without giving too much away, but I often found myself thinking "why is he/she being that way?". This for me was quite disappointing, and wholly unexpected, as I've always enjoyed each character and the general community spirit of Welford.

It was, however, an enjoyable part to the series and I completed it in a little over a day thanks to the Bank Holiday weekend. I look forward to the next story at Christmas time.

A huge thank you to Netgalley and Hodder and Stoughton for this ARC in exchange for an open and honest review. I had no idea that this book was part of a series. However, it can be read as a stand-alone book. After reading this book, I definitely need to read the series. This was such a good read, I really enjoyed it. I would recommend this fun and easy read to others. Especially, if you’ve woken up at 3am and can’t get back to sleep. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
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It did take a while to get started with this book. I can’t say why, as it is the type of light read, summer holiday book I usually adore. I stuck with it and once the story kicked in I found I really liked it.

I didn’t realise there were other books in the series, perhaps if I had I would have gone to read some first and be more familiar with the characters. I don’t feel this took anything away from the enjoyment of the book and it can be read as a stand alone story.

This story focuses on vet nurse Helen. She’s a great character and you really feel for her when she starts to doubt the choices she’s made in life, not taking risks, travelling with her friend and if she wants to settle down with Seb. Add in her new flirty colleague and it is obvious the path the story is going to take.

Mandy, Seb, James, Toby and all the other supporting characters are well written and add lots to the story, padding out other lines alongside Helen’s life.

Overall, a little predictable and slow moving in parts but still a fun summer read.

I read the first three books in the Hope Meadows series and generally enjoyed them but did feel the third one was getting a bit tired and there wasn’t much further Mandy’s story could go however focusing on other characters has brought the series back to life for me. I enjoyed Helen’s tale and her questions about her relationship with Seb combined with her attraction to vet Toby, she’s a lovely character facing very realistic questions about what she wants in life. It’s an easy going story, very character led with lots of animals thrown in making for a relaxing read. This could read very easily as a stand-alone so even if you’re not familiar with the previous books you’ll have no trouble getting into this.

This book is part of the Animal Ark revisited series. I have read the other books in the series, and I feel that this book is more enjoyable when you have read the previous books.
This book focuses upon Veterinary Nurse Helen, who begins to question her sensible life with her boyfriend Seb. Her friend is travelling for a few months, and she wonders if she needs more excitement in her life. New vet Toby suddenly seems more interesting.
Mandy and James are also having problems with their relationships, but when Helen's home Sunrise Farm is suddenly at risk, everyone puts aside their problems to try and save the farm.
This book is feel good read. It is perfect for a holiday read, or a relaxing summer read. The locations are appealing, and sound lovely. There are storyline featuring various animals,both rescue and pets. This is not my favourite book in the series so far, but I still found it enjoyable.

I enjoyed this novel, it was fresh, upbeat and an enjoyable way to spend a few hours. I've read other novels by this author before and really liked her style of writing so was looking forward to reading another one by Lucy Daniels again. They're uplifting and heartwarming and I loved the title and cover of this novel.

Overall, a fun and enjoyable book.

With thanks to Netgalley and Hodder and Staughton for this ARC in exchange for an open and honest review.

In this book the story is focussed on Helen Steer who is the veterinary nurse at Animal Ark Veterinary surgery.

When Helen's best friend went to Spain for three months, Helen was envious and longed to go on her own adventure with her dogs. Helen became further suffocated when her boyfriend Seb wanted them to save up for a mortgage deposit,

Out of the blue Seb explained he had been offered a job in Aberdeen and wanted Helen to go with him. Helen loved her little cottage on Sunrise Farm and her job at Animal Ark and they broke up.

Confused Helen started a relationship with Animal Ark vet and notorious womanizer Toby Gordon. Things were going smoothly until Helen found out that the owners of Sunrise Farm were going to sell the farm after plunging profits and a bad harvest. Helen loved her cottage and decided to rally up the villagers of Welford to save Sunrise Farm.

Although the series was about Helen I was glad that vet Mandy Hope and her partner Jimmy Marsh appeared in the story.

I always enjoy the veterinary procedures in the books. This time Helen had to deal with Croissant the diabetic cat and Toby had to treat Tango the Hope`s family's cat after he was run over. The best part for me was little Isla the blind dog that Helen adopted and too home to live with her.

I liked Helen who was a brilliant nurse and loyal to her friends. I can understand why she didn't want to leave Welford where she had a great house and job with kind understanding friends.

Although Summer Days is the fifth book in the Hope Meadow series it can be easily read as a standalone. I was glad to catch up with lives of characters in the previous books such as James and his partner Raj, Susan and Douglas.

Aah, I love this series so much and leaves me glowing with happiness. For any of fans of the series there are some troubling times ahead for Mandy, I can't wait for book 6.

This book was not for me, I don't see the point of all these romantic storylines (wanting to propose, unexpectedly being able to adopt, online dating) if there isn't anything else that happens - apart from dogs learning to cope with each other and cats being hit by cars - only to be able write a follow-up.

Don't get me wrong, I try to find the right tone of voice of this review... it is just that nothing really happened. What were these people seriously passionate about, apart from having a bit of bad night's sleep over their problems? They are flat characters to me without having a laugh or getting really emotionally.