• Sunrise by the Sea

  • A Little Beach Bakery Novel
  • By: Jenny Colgan
  • Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
  • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (312 ratings)

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Sunrise by the Sea

By: Jenny Colgan
Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
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Publisher's summary

New York Times best-selling author Jenny Colgan returns to the setting of her beloved Little Beach Street Bakery series for a timely and heartfelt novel set in a Cornish seaside village.

Marisa Rosso can’t understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses grandparents, right? Why is she taking it so badly?

Retreating further and further from normal life, she moves to the end of the earth - the remote tidal island of Mount Polbearne, at the foot of Cornwall, hoping for peace and solitude, while carrying on her job as a registrar, dealing with births, weddings, and deaths, even as she feels life is passing her by.

Unfortunately - or fortunately? - the solitude she craves proves elusive. Between her noisy Russian piano-teaching neighbor, the bustle and community spirit of the tiny village struggling back to life after the quarantine, and the pressing need to help save the local bakery, can Marisa find her joy again at the end of the world?

©2021 Jenny Colgan (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

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Classic Jenny Colgan

Great performance - and the voice of Huckle is sooo much better than the earlier books in the series.

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A good story of real problems

Of the 4 Beach Street novels it’s difficult to choose one I like best - but being a recovered agoraphobic this one speaks more to my heart - however the narration on this one is far superior to the first three. Huckle actually sounds southern, the Italian, the Russian, the British, all are great. If you have more in this series the narrator needs to be this one!!!

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Finally a character who overcomes anxiety

The storyline had a slower pace in first 1-2 chapters, but gets very good in chapter 3.
I really like the care she gave to main character and description of feeling anxiety.
The thread of Polly’s twins had too much book time in last few chapters, but I really enjoyed the ending

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I love visiting the bakery…

I adore these stories. The only thing wrong with them is that they are too short!

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Once again…

Once again Jenny Colgan shines a light on a difficult subject to explain. Depression that manifests itself slowly into agoraphobia and the slow road back if you’re lucky enough to have the help you need available to you. Fun to catch up with cast of characters we’ve come to love and to be reminded that no challenge is insurmountable with friendship, family and community.

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good story

Why is it that we go through all the bad times with a character and when things finally get good the book ends? It was a very good story, but three quarters of the book is so depressing I want to jump off the roof. A couple of times I almost shut it down and thought I'd give it a little longer. I'm glad I did.

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loved loved loved!

great book that drew me in. gave me hope when down and a way to pull myself up.

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Adorable visuals

Just a cute & fun book. An Uplifting little treat of a story!!! Check it out!

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Sweet

I liked this book and the narrator had more voices up her sleeve than you can shake a stick at!

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Amazing

I loved this story-the only regret you will have is if you don’t read it!

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