I was drawn to the colourful cover, and the title and description intrigued me.

This was a delight to read. It was lovely and summery - in fact, reading it was just like taking a trip to the seaside, and that setting came very much to life while I was reading, with some beautiful imagery. It was also a very heartwarming story to read, though it did have me tearful in places.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for a free copy to review.

Lots of secrets, lots of drama, new beginnings, family history, learning to find yourself and who you are again. A well written book, with great characters and a really good storyline.

I loved this story because the setting of Shelly in Exmouth was familiar to me in 1970s. In the late 1980s the leases on the land most of these seaside holiday homes were built on expired, and there was wholesale redevelopment of the area. Melody has lived there all her life and feels the potential loss of her home very keenly. There is much about loss of different kinds in this novel and the different ways people find to deal with it. Melody also discovers that her family is not quite as she thought it was and has to come to terms with this too. However this is a truly heartwarming novel that I thoroughly enjoyed reading