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“Delightful. . . funny and poignant.” --People With a kick like the best hot sauce, this is the laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother "If you ever pined for a mother who would take a hunting falcon as her wingman to a parent-teacher...

Pollyanna, an expert at her favorite "Glad Game" of always looking at the bright side in her numerous trials, is one of the most popular and enduring characters in all of children's literature. As Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she exclaims, "Oh, Aunt Polly, I don't know how to be glad enough that you let me come to live with you!"

She was a bewitching young girl, that pretty Polly Marsh, and she knew it. She also knew that beauty could be her passport into the castles where she had always known she belonged. So she set her sights on a duke and joined the firm of Westerman’s as a stenographer. Surely one of that noble family would notice her, and then all her dreams would come true! The trouble with pretty Polly Marsh was that she just didn’t know her place.

'The perfect romantic tale, to warm your heart. The strong female characters will make you smile, the cosy small-town setting will make you swoon and the feel-good escapism will whisk you far away to Pretty Beach. LOVED every gorgeous word of it!' Ali Patterson. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Phoebe Tillington is embracing her new life in Pretty Beach with gusto. After years of waiting for someone else to press go on her existence she’s suddenly got so much life on her hands she’s feeling all the feels for all the lovely things. With the delightful Jamie by her side and a new baby on the way, we ...

Gorgeous, small-town women's fiction and swoon-worthy escapist romance set in a beautiful British seaside town. If you're looking for a happy ever after with divine characters, settle in and say hello to LOVELY BAY. Cally de Pfeffer has spent a long, long, long time caring for just about everyone in her life. Unfortunately, though, no one has ever done quite the same for her. As she makes it through the other side of a sad situation, all she really wants is one nice day. Not a lot to ask for, actually, is it? That doesn’t happen, though, and when she finds herself more or less homeless, ...

After months of travel, former maid Lottie Sprigg returns to Fortescue Manor in the rolling hills of Shropshire. Her arrival coincides with a celebratory dinner to mend a family feud. But the flow of champagne dwindles to a trickle when a body is found in the library. Who committed the atrocity? Suspicion falls on several characters: some above stairs and some below....

Welcome to LOVELY BAY - a heartwarming, feel-good, small-town story with romance, community and friendship set in a to-die-for British seaside town perched just off the English south coast. Sweet, small-town romantic women's fiction you'll adore. Cally has settled down quite nicely after her gorgeous ride in Lovely Bay. She’s feeling all the life feels, and that old sky she’d been holding up for like ever is no longer there (at least she hopes it isn’t). Everything is swoon-worthy as she plans to take a few new paths here and there —that is until she discovers something she hadn’t...

Less than one year into her marriage to respected magistrate George Knightley, Emma has grown unusually content in her newfound partnership and refreshed sense of independence. The height of summer sees the former Miss Woodhouse gracefully balancing the meticulous management of her elegant family estate and a flurry of social engagements, with few worries apart from her beloved father's health . . . But cheery circumstances change in an instant when Emma and Harriet Martin, now the wife of one of Mr. Knightley's tenant farmers, discover a hideous shock at the local church.

Perfect for fans of Rachel Hanna and Pamela Kelley. Chock full of friendship, community, romance, old British cottages and Spring in Pretty Beach. Delve back into the next part of this cosy little town by the sea as the sweet, little coastal town wakes up to a new year and begins to bloom. Get ready to fall in love with Pretty Beach all over again as the sparkly blue beach town, surrounded by water, overlooked by a quaint old lighthouse and filled with wonderful characters, welcomes us into its fold as the blossom falls and flowers bloom. Juliette Sparkles, resident Pretty Beach midwife, ...

The Boat House Pretty Beach Books 1-3 BOXED SET. ‘Polly Babbington creates utterly magical books.’ The delightfully romantic and heartwarming tale of a new life in Pretty Beach, get ready to completely lose yourself in a cosy, old house and sweet love story on the coast this summer. A sweeping, sparkly blue beach town surrounded by water, crisscrossed with sweet old laneways, filled with wonderful characters and overlooked by a quaint old blue and white lighthouse. We meet the lovely Sallie Broadchurch and follow her bringing back to life an unloved old boathouse - pretty, forty and ...

London, 1941. Polly Hope is bravely working as an air raid warden during the Blitz when she saves the life of the charming Freddie Fairbank. Over a thank-you breakfast at the Ritz, he asks Polly to help requisition a sprawling English country house for the war effort. Petherbridge Hall has grand rooms, lovely views and will be a perfect nursing home for injured troops, if they can only persuade the family to give up their house. But then they find the lord of the manor dead behind the gardener’s shed.

Perfect for fans of Pamela Kelley and Rachel Hanna. Escape to the beautiful British coast and fall in love with the little town of Pretty Beach. If you love stories about friendship, small towns, and community, Pretty Beach is just the place for you. Meet the lovely Sallie Broadchurch and follow along as she brings back to life and renovates an unloved old boathouse. Sallie, pretty, forty and down on her luck arrives in Pretty Beach very much looking for a new life by the sea. In the old boathouse she's inherited she's not unhappy to find the neighbour Ben Chalmers - he might just be the ...

The delightfully romantic story of Lovely Little Things continues as Pretty Beach eases its way into summer with the next part in the trilogy, Beautiful Little Things. Strap yourself in as we go on a gorgeous ride with lovely Lulu Drinkwater, follow her trials and tribulations and her new life by the sea. We immerse ourselves back into the next part of Lulu’s story and catch up with her as she begins to find her feet in the town she grew up in. Far from her life being over and ending up alone, Lulu’s life is ticking along very nicely and she settles into long, happy days in the sweet ...

The Coastguard's House Darling Island BOXED SET. (BOOKS 1 - 3) BOOK ONE - The Coastguard's House Darling Island Lucie Peachtree is living her (nearly) best life as she prepares to pack up her house to move to the country with her ever-so-handsome, teenage heartthrob boyfriend turned partner, Rob. Rob, unfortunately, forgets to mention that while Lucie was selling their house, trying to get pregnant and was doing all the things, had secured himself another life, thank-you-very-much. A life complete with a twenty-four-year-old very much pregnant work colleague and not including Lucie in any ...

The complete One Day in Lovely Bay Collection by Polly Babbington author of The Boat House Pretty Beach. This boxed set collection includes all three contemporary romance author Polly Babbington's One Nice Day books. One Nice Day in Lovely Bay One Sweet Day in Lovely bay One Perfect Day in Lovely Bay Gorgeous, small-town women's fiction and swoon-worthy escapist romance set in a beautiful British seaside town. If you're looking for a happy ever after with fabulous characters, settle in and say hello to LOVELY BAY. 'Not just a romance book, a Polly Babbington romance book.' Cally de Pfeffer ...

Gorgeous, slow burn romance you'll adore. If you love small-town women's fiction and swoon-worthy escapist romance set in a beautiful British seaside town, say hello to Pretty Beach. With the wind in her sails and loving both her new relationship and the trajectory of her life, Darby Lovell is on the up, up, up. When things begin to shift her perspective in just about every corner of her existence, she is one very happy bunny as she goes about her life in her beautiful old tumbledown house in the Old Town of Pretty Beach. We catch up with her as she embraces to the max all that she has ...

With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France—a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

From the queen of setting and author of The Coastguard's House Darling Island comes the next instalment in the tale of Jane Le Romancer and her adventure with a house swap by the sea. For Jane, everything is looking on the rather lovely side of rosy. Her new beau Oscar is proving to be fabulous and her once beige life is no longer quite as small – in fact, it’s growing every which way she turns. As Jane settles nicely into her relationship with Oscar and falls not only in love with him but with Darling Island too, she wonders what the next few months will bring. She starts to ponder ...

'If you love romance by the sea, an utterly gorgeous setting, vintage houses, beautiful homewares and curling up in a hammock with a dream, settle yourself in for a wonderful journey as Polly Babbington weaves her magic and takes us on a voyage back to Pretty Beach.' 'So beautifully written, an utterly comforting, feel-good romance novel for 2021, Polly Babbington’s stories are simply magical escapism and a joy to read.' Sarah Johnson. Lulu Drinkwater is living the dream in Pretty Beach - a huge old mansion by the sea, a fabulous job at the local hotel, and a very nice man to snuggle up ...

Welcome to Pretty Beach - a complete set of heartwarming feel-good, small town stories with romance, community and friendship set in a to-die for British seaside town perched just off the English south coast.This collection includes all THREE full-size titles in the popular Old Sugar Wharf Pretty Beach romance books. ♥ ♥ Come along to Pretty Beach and get ready for a lovely romcom story and meet your new best friend Phoebe Tillington. Settle down with the brand new romance trilogy from Polly Babbington & binge-read as she transports us on another glorious voyage to life by the sea… to...