Lindsey Reviews: Spring at The Little Duck Pond Café by Rosie Green
Spring
at The Little Duck Pond Café’ (Little Duck Pond Café 1)
Rosie
Green
Kindle
Edition
This is the first in a series of novellas
by Rosie Green.
Ellie Farmer comes to Sunnybrook village to
take some pictures for her Mum, who is suffering from the early onset of
Alzheimer’s, in the hope it will help her memory and immediately makes an
entrance. After falling in the local duck pond, Ellie is offered a helping hand
from the Little Duck Pond café proprietor, Sylvia Symington. Things have not been going well for Ellie:
with her mum’s sad diagnosis and the discovery that her long -term boyfriend,
Richard, has cheated on her with the gorgeous librarian Giselle, Ellie feels it
is time for a new start. When Sylvia
informs Ellie that the best way to deal with her troubles is a change of
scenery and offers her the flat above the café for 6 months respite, Ellie is
at a crossroads. Taking the bull by the
horn, she packs in her receptionist’s job and moves to Sunnybrook. Ellie embraces the village life with a new
job and friendships and soon Ellie finds herself falling in love with the
charismatic author, Zak Chamberlain. But Zak has secrets of his own and before
long Ellie finds that she is presented with a dilemma. With the 6-month time limit arriving, should
Ellie take the chance for a new life and love or will the heartache of her past
prevent her from finding happiness?
This was the first in a series of novellas
by Rosie Green. It was a light hearted,
easy read with a host of wonderful characters.
You really got a sense of village life and community in the story. The book was very life affirming and was a testament
to the power of friendship and how sometimes in life you have to take a chance
and seize happiness, whatever form it presents itself. The love story between Zak and Ellie was
really heartening. Both have had past
experiences which have made them wary of love and the reader really championed
for them to be together as they are obviously made for each other. The story also highlighted the theme of
Alzheimer’s disease very empathetically with the interplay between Ellie and
her mum Rose relayed in a realistic and sensitive manner.
A lovely story with wonderful
characters. I look forward to the next
instalments. Perfect reading for
escapism.
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