The Year of Surprising Acts of Kindness

Author/Guide: Laura Kemp

Why a Booktrail?

2000s: If you like to read about kindness, read this. If you’re Welsh you should definately read this!

ISBN: 978-1409174837
Genre: Humour, Romance

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What you need to know before your trail

When Ceri Price arrives in the small seaside village in West Wales, she only means to stay for a couple of nights – long enough to scatter her mother’s ashes, and then go back to her life as a successful make-up entrepreneur.

But when a case of mistaken identities means she lands a job as the barmaid in the local pub, she unexpectedly finds friendship, and perhaps a chance at love.

But when the plans for a new housing estate put the local woodland under threat, she fears the way of life here could disappear.

Then mysterious acts of kindness start springing up around the village – a string of bunting adorns the streets, a new village signpost appears out of nowhere and someone provides paint to spruce up the houses on the seafront. Who is behind these acts of kindness and can they help in the race to save the village from the faceless developers…?

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“Dwynwen” – fictional village in West Wales

Fictional name butlovely name as Saint Dwynwen is the Welsh patron saint of lovers, a day celebrated on 25 January.

The village might be fictional but you’ll wish it was real! It’a a small village surrounded by woods, a place where community is the buzz word and where when their home is threatened by a new building development, they come together to put paid to those plans.

It’s a village where time has stood still in many ways as there’s no posh coffee shops and celebrity hangouts. There is however a small cafe and a pub as well as the houses.

They’re having a bit of a heatwave as the book opens changing its name intoCosta del Dwynen. On the sign the name Dwynwen which sits atop The Village of Love”

“Dwynwen wasn’t pronounced ‘ duh-wuh-yuh-nnn-when”, so she was informed at the petrol station , but “Der-win-when’, although you had to say it quickly, like Dwynwen.”