Chef Anna moves to Crovie, a tiny fishing village on the
Moray Firth, for a fresh start after the breakdown of a long relationship with
a “celebrity” chef. When she arrives at her new home that was a bit of an
impulse buy, she discovers that her new home is nothing more than a glorified shed,
and the village itself sits beneath a cliff right on the edge of the sea, in
constant danger of storms and landslides. She feels she has made a terrible
mistake and vows to stay just one night before moving on and selling it.
Yet as she begins to learn about the Scottish
coast and its people, something she thought she’d lost reawakens in her. She
rediscovers her love of cooking and turns her kitchen into a pop-up lunch club.
But not all the locals are delighted about her arrival, and some are keen to
see her plans fail.
Will Anna really be able to put down roots in this
remote and wild village? Or will her fragile new beginning start to crumble
with the cliffs . . .?
This book has been on my TBR (to be reviewed!) list for a
quite a while, but I knew that I had to be disciplined and read the others on my
list before finally getting to this one. Well, it was worth the wait, it’s like
ordering a mundane starter (other books) and knowing that the main course is
going to blow your socks off because it’s exactly what you want. This book was
a fantastic gastronomic three course meal, within a book cover!!! I wasn’t disappointed!!
It was a truly wonderful read and it was so refreshing to read a book that wasn’t
set in the Cotsworlds or Cornwall, which seems to be the trend at the moment.
I didn’t just read this book, for the short time that it took
me to read it (as you will flick through the pages so quickly, wanting to know
more!) I lived my life alongside the characters. I could feel the Scottish sea
air on my face as I walked along the cliff path with Anna and every day I was always
one of the lucky six to sit at her table and enjoy her food.
This book had everything, a sprinkling of heartache, a pinch
of grief and a dollop of romance…for me, the perfect recipe for a remarkable, completely
believable story
Please, please, please don’t let the story finish there
though – I would love to revisit Crovie, perhaps at Christmas so we can see
what has happened to the characters and how life has turned out for them.
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