One Enchanted Evening by Katie Fford

Set in 1966.  Meg's mum is running a small, old fashioned, hotel in Dorset.  She rings Meg and asks for help as there is an important annual event coming up and the hotel owner is abroad sorting out family business.  Meg has been working in kitchens in London and wants to become a professional chef.  On her arrival at the hotel the drunken chef walks out and Meg is left to prepare a meal for 50 people on her own.  

Justin, the son of the owner, turns up to check on things and is not impressed to find a woman in the kitchen.  Meg is tempted to leave him to it but her love of cooking keeps her there in the kitchen.  

Meg and her mum work hard on ways to update the hotel so that it can become profitable and stay open.  

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon

During the very hot summer of 1976 Mrs Creasy, a resident of The Avenue, goes missing.  Ten year old friends Grace and Tilly turn amateur sleuths, they want to find Mrs Creasy and also, as God is everywhere, they decide they want to find him too.   

The local residents are all talking about why Mrs Creasy has gone.  Could it be that she has found out what really happened in The Avenue in 1967? 

Return to Half Moon Farm by Holly Hepburn

Daisy temporarily moves to Kent with her twin boys as her mother has become ill and needs looking after.  Daisy has not seen her mother for many years.  She is shocked by the dilapidated state of the farm.  The roof is leaking, there are broken windows and her sons are horrified by the very poor wi-fi signal.  

Local man Drew has been helping her mother with some of the repairs and also by tending the orchard where he gets a lot of mistletoe.  

Daisy finds some old love letters in the loft which had been written to her grandmother.  They are not from her grandfather.  She discovers that there are family secrets and a rift between her family and the family who live in the local manor house and who own the local castle.  But as the daughter of this family is in the same school class as her sons they keep bumping into each other.  

The Book Lovers' Retreat by Heidi Swain

Friends Emily, Rachel and Tori have been planning a 6 week holiday to a lake-side cottage, which is used in the film adaptation of their favorite book 'Hope Falls', for years.  Just before they are about to go Tori's father pulls the plug on her allowance and life style and she suddenly can't go.  Rachel and Emily need the holiday.  Emily needs to make a decision about her job and if she wants to set up her own business and Rachel has to decide whether or not she is going to move in with her boyfriend Jeremy.  

There is always a waiting list of people who want to go to the cottage so the agent provides details of people on the list for Rachel and Emily to see if they want to invite anyone to join them.  They decide on Alex who seems to have very similar likes and is a mega fan of the book and film.  Things do not work out according to their plan.  

Faking It by Portia MacIntosh

Having not seen her identical twin for a number of years, at a very low point in her life when there has been a fire at her flat and she has just lost her job, Ella receives a phone call from sister Emma asking for her help. 

Emma wants Ella to stand in for her and pretend to be her for the next 6 weeks.  This means pretending to me mum to two children and wife to Emma's husband.  Only Emma, Ella and Emma's husband will know about the switch.  Emma leaves very precise information about what is in her calendar and where Ella needs to be.  Ella, not being as organised as Emma, doesn't always remember to look ahead to see what she should be doing.  She definitely does not like most of the people that Emma has to mix with, except for the uncle of one of her son's friends.