Release date - 6th June 2019
Book length - 400 pages Publisher - HQ Worldwide - www.bookdepository.com Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com I want to thank Joe from Harper Collins UK for providing me with a copy of this book for review. ABOUT THIS BOOK Sometimes going home is just the beginning… Boskenna, the beautiful, imposing house standing on the Cornish cliffs, means something different to each of the Trewin women. For Joan, as a glamorous young wife in the 1960s, it was a paradise where she and her husband could entertain and escape a world where no one was quite what they seemed – a world that would ultimately cost their marriage and end in tragedy. Diana, her daughter, still dreams of her childhood there – the endless blue skies and wide lawns, book-filled rooms and parties, the sound of the sea at the end of the coastal path – even the family she adored was shattered there. And for the youngest, broken-hearted Lottie, heading home in the August traffic, returning to Boskenna is a welcome escape from a life gone wrong in London, but will mean facing a past she’d hoped to forget. As the three women gather in Boskenna for a final time, the secrets hidden within the beautiful old house will be revealed in a summer that will leave them changed for ever. MY REVIEW Gripping, fresh, and completely unputdownable, THE PATH TO THE SEA is my favourite novel by Liz Fenwick thus far. Boskenna is a stunning house on the Cornish cliffs that calls back three generations of women to face their pasts and their future. Joan is dying and wants to make amends to her strong, tough daughter for secrets that have kept them at a distance for far too long but she worries that the past will make things even worse between them. Diana knows what it is like to have your heart destroyed when you lose someone so has kept up her walls with her mother and even her own daughter, Lottie. But Diana feels ready to face the haunting feeling that she gets when she is in Boskenna and she wants answers about the death of her father. But is she ready for the truth? And then there is Lottie whose life is upside down but she feels she cannot burden her grandmother whom she adores and her mother who always judges her too harshly. Lottie loves coming back to Boskenna even though it will break her heart to say goodbye to her grandmother who raised her. But a blast from the past in the form of her first love brings back that awful night ten years when everything started to fall apart for Lottie. Is she brave enough to deal with what happened? Switching from past to present and between the different characters was a genius way of opening up Boskenna and all of the people that have lived and loved there. There are secrets and subterfuge, love and friendship, heartache and tragedy all encased among the walls, and as I got to know each and every character, I felt like I was there, a part of it all, experiencing the whole thing alongside them which is no easy feat for an author. All of the characters are excellently portrayed but it was Joan and Lottie's characters which stood out as just that extra bit special. THE PATH TO THE SEA by Liz Fenwick is brimming with strong women who make life-changing decisions, wanting to protect those they love even though it may not seem like it at the time, and I completely fell under the spell of this captivating story that broke my heart at times. THE PATH TO THE SEA by Liz Fenwick is bewitching from beginning to end and is one of the best books I have ever read in this genre. AUTHOR BIO I was born in Massachusetts and after nine international moves - the final one lasting eight years in Dubai- I now live in Cornwall and London with my husband and a cat. I made my first trip to Cornwall in 1989, bought my home there seven years later. My heart is forever in Cornwall, creating new stories. My debut novel THE CORNISH HOUSE was followed by A CORNISH AFFAIR, A CORNISH STRANGER and UNDER A CORNISH SKY, A Cornish Christmas Carol (novella), and The Returning Tide. All published by Orion in English. There are editions in Dutch, German, Portuguese, French, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Estonian, Latvian, Turkish, Serbian, Czech and soon Hungarian. My latest novel is One Cornish Summer out 8th March 2018. For more information: Website - lizfenwick.com Twitter - twitter.com/liz_fenwick Facebook - www.facebook.com/liz.fenwick.author?fref=ts Instagram - www.instagram.com/liz_fenwick/
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