📖 Blog Tour ~ The Best is Yet to Come by Jessica Redland

Boldwood Books
3 September 2024
Escape to the Lakes #3

Thanks to the publishers and Rachel’s Random Resources
For the invitation to the tour.

Emma is having a fresh start.

After a successful teaching career, an exciting new chapter awaits Emma – helping her fiancé Grayson run one of Beatrix Potter's farms. While imagining days spent supporting Grayson with his dream, working the land and helping with the animals, Emma harvests a dream of her own – to set up an alpaca-walking business around the farm.

But working together isn’t as easy as Emma expected. Soon her dreams are in tatters and, broken-hearted, she must start over yet again.

When Oliver, Rosie and the team at Willowdale Hall welcome Emma with open arms, she can't believe her luck. But starting a new business in a new place is a daunting prospect, especially when it comes with unexpected obstacles. With a reserved, prickly groundskeeper as a partner, rapidly changing family dynamics to contend with, and time running out to get her new career off the ground, Emma may have bitten off more than she can chew.

But even though things are not going to plan just yet, the best is yet to come for Emma, if she can just take a leap of faith and follow her heart...

📖My Review

After leaving her successful teaching career, Emma is looking forward to starting a new life with her fiancé Grayson on an idyllic Cumbrian farm, however, this move isn’t anything like Emma expected and when things go badly wrong she has to restart her life once again. Willowdale Hall in the Lake District is home to a delightful collection of characters who soon rally round in order to give Emma the new start she so richly deserves.

This is a delightful story which has all the trademarks of this author’s lovely warm style of writing. She makes all the characters so realistic that they immediately work their way into your heart and you can’t help but want everything to work out for them. As this is the third book in the Escape to the Lakes series there is a sense of returning ‘home’ to all the lovely people who we have grown to love with the added joy of meeting new characters who each have their own story to share. I have especially enjoyed reading Emma’s story, it has been so refreshing to have a forty-something character making a new start, her determination and enthusiasm shines throughout but there are also other lovely characters who make their own distinctive impression. I must mention The Magnificent Seven who were a real delight and such an integral part of the story.

Covering some difficult topics in a very readable way is what this talented writer does best and The Best is Yet to Come looks at complicated relationships but does so with a lovely light touch and a reminder to embrace what life has to offer and to make the most of every opportunity. Whilst it works as a standalone story I do think that it makes sense to start this delightful series from the beginning as that way you get to know and love all the characters who make this series so special.

About the Author

Jessica Redland writes emotional but uplifting stories of love, friendship, family and community. Her Whitsborough Bay books transport readers to the stunning North Yorkshire Coast where she lives with her husband, daughter and sprocker spaniel. Her Hedgehog Hollow series, set in a hedgehog rescue centre, takes readers into the beautiful rolling countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds.

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