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  Wickham Hall

  Holly Swift has just landed the job of her dreams: events co-ordinator at Wickham Hall, a beautiful manor house sitting proudly in the heart of the village where she grew up. The new job puts some much-needed distance between Holly and her problems at home, and she loves the busy world of the hall, from family weddings to summer festivals, fireworks displays to Christmas grottos. But her own life isn’t as easily organised … Can Holly learn to just let go and live in the moment? After all, that’s when the magic happens …

  The Plumberry School of Comfort Food

  Verity Bloom hasn’t been interested in cooking anything more complicated than the perfect fish finger sandwich, ever since she lost her best friend and baking companion two years ago. But an opportunity to help a friend lands her right back in the heart of the kitchen. The Plumberry School of Comfort Food is due to open in a few weeks’ time and needs the kind of great ideas that only Verity could cook up. Can Verity find the magic ingredient for Plumberry while still writing her own recipe for happiness?

  White Lies and Wishes

  What happens when what you wish for is only half the story …? Jo Gold, Sarah Hudson and Carrie Radley are an unlikely trio, but meeting by chance one winter’s day, they share a moment of ‘Carpe Diem’ madness and embark on a mission to make their wishes come true by September. Easy. At least it would be, if they hadn’t been just the teensiest bit stingy with the truth… With hidden issues, hidden talents, and hidden demons to overcome, the new friends must admit to what they really, really want, if they are ever to get their happy endings.

  The Lemon Tree Café

  When Rosie Featherstone finds herself unexpectedly jobless, the offer to help her beloved grandmother out at the Lemon Tree Café feels like the perfect way to keep busy. Surrounded by the rich scent of espresso, delicious biscotti and juicy village gossip, Rosie soon finds herself falling for her new way of life. But then disaster looms and the cafe’s fortunes are threatened … With surprises, betrayal and more than one secret brewing, can she find a way to save the Lemon Tree Café and help both herself and Nonna achieve the happy endings they deserve?

  Nina and Jude’s relationship might have ended before it began… can Nina find the right balance between the work she loves and the man she’s falling for? What will she choose now that a new future has begun to form at her feet?

  Continue the story in Part Four of A Match Made in Devon: The Leading Lady

  The sun is beginning to set on Nina’s wonderful time in Brightside Cove. Indeed, things seem to be wrapping up; Theo is looking much more cheery and Brightside holidays is set to be a massive success. Suddenly, it feels like there’s slightly less space for Nina in this sunny corner of Devon. But there’s still lots to do before she leaves, and an old face is still around to stir up trouble for the locals. The real question is whether she can squeeze in some more time with hunky Jude.

  Ever resourceful, Nina has never met a problem she can’t tackle. But Brightside Cove’s beautiful, historic lifeboat house is set to be sold to the highest bidder. And her fledgling romance is soon to be strangled by her new starring role, set in the highlands of Scotland. Meanwhile, family secrets have started to bubble, ready to come to a boil…

  With all this and time soon to run out, has Nina finally met her match?

  You can find out what happens next in the final part of A Match Made in Devon – a wonderfully warm and funny novel told in four parts, following the adventures of Nina Penhaligan as she builds herself a new life.

  Don’t miss Cathy Bramley’s wonderful new novel…

  Hetty’s Farmhouse Bakery

  Thirty-two-year-old Hetty Greengrass is the star around which the rest of her family orbits. Marriage, motherhood and helping Dan run Sunnybank Farm have certainly kept her hands full for the last twelve years. But when her daughter Poppy has to choose her inspiration for a school project and picks her aunt, not her mum, Hetty is left full of self-doubt.

  Hetty’s always been generous with her time and until now, her biggest talent – baking deliciously moreish shortcrust pastry pies – has been limited to charity work and the village fete. But taking part in a competition run by Cumbria’s Finest to find the very best produce from the region might be just the thing to make her daughter proud … and reclaim something for herself.

  Except that life isn’t as simple as producing the perfect pie. Changing the status quo isn’t easy – and with cracks appearing in her marriage and shocking secrets coming to light, Hetty must decide where her priorities really lie …

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  First published in Great Britain as four separate ebooks in 2018 by Transworld Digital

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  First published as one edition in 2018 by Corgi Books

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  Copyright © Cathy Bramley 2018

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