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2000s: Life in the Cornish village of Pendruggan isn’t always picture perfect.
The Postcard
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Penny realises that life is not always as it seems. She’s lived in Pendruggan all her life but she’s never told anyone why she’s estranged from her mother and sister. Family secrets are best kept close to your chest she thinks. However they do have a horrible way of eating you up inside. However a long lost postcard could hold the key to everything.
Meanwhile, Penny has a job to do. she’s taken in a young girl, Ella, who’s returned to the place of her happy childhood and where she is set to search for what she feels is missing in her life.
People looking for secrets, hiding secrets and hoping that life in Pendruggan can carry on none the wiser. However the past has other ideas.
Travel Guide
Well it’s fictional but the town of St Dominick is where Fern herself used to live and in an interview once she said it inspired her fictional Pendruggan! . The village of Pendruggan does sound ideal mind you and it has a very unique way of welcoming you in. Just picture this:
“Penny had her coffee in the luxurious silence of her peaceful bead. Winter in Cornwall held a quiet all of its own. No tractors would be out until the sun came up. No bird would be stirring in its nest and no parishioners would be beating their way up the vicarage path to give Simon another burden of responsibility.”
It’s a small village but there’s an awful lot going on!
Booktrailer Review
If you’re heading to Cornwall anytime soon, you need a Fern Britton novel. You can tell she loves the area and knows it well as despite the places she writes about being fictional, she immerses you in the salt air, the summer breeze and the Cornish cream teas.
Mix into that a postcard which has been hidden away in an old suitcase, an unwelcome sister and being faced with the past and the safe Cornish haven merge for a nice story of family bonds and fresh starts
Penny has a fragile mind and I got the sense that she was as fragile as each crashing wave on the beach. Despite the beauty of this place, there are people here suffering and holding their breath, hiding away.
There’s a lot to this novel and it’s packed with secrets and twists but it’s also gentle and a novel to read with an icecream on the beach – A cornish beach just to, you know, fully immerse yourself in the literary life!
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Postcard
Author/Guide: Fern Britton Destination: “Pendruggan”, Cornwall Departure Time: 2000s
Twitter: @Fern_Britton Facebook: /officialfernbritton Web: fern-britton.com
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