A Baby at the Beach Cafe (Quick Reads)

Author/Guide: Lucy Diamond

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2000s: What could be nicer than a spell at the beach with Lucy Diamond?

ISBN: 978-1447278337
Genre: novella

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What you need to know before your trail

Lucy Diamond first took us to the beach and the beach cafe in Cornwall is her book The Beach Cafe. This is the short story follow up to what happens next. Evie loves running her cafe on the beach in Cornwall and enjoys the people she meets every day and the customers chatter in the background. Now pregnant, she’s been told to put her feet up but knowing Evie, you know that’s not going to be likely any time soon.

Helen has come to cornwall to escape the stress of living in the city and sees the cafe and the beach environment as a lovely fresh start. She starts working at the cafe and enjoys the work.

Two women with two very different outlooks all seeing the cafe as a their own little world. when events take a dramatic turn can they learn to work together?

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The beach cafe is a place for memories and for new starts – for Evie:

“I remembered being a child here in north Cornwall, back when the beach cafe belonged to my Aunty Jo”

She’s been left the cafe in Jo’s will who died two year ago now, Now the happy memories of life years ago come back with Evie hanging shells over her yet to be born baby’s cot to evoke the same sense of happiness and seaside memories. The bump is called Walnut due to its size.

The cafe is connected to so much so when Helen comes into the picture, it’s easy to see how she would grab on to the memories and nostalgia of the place. It’s a matter of trust in Jo’s memory. However for Helen too, here to escape the stresses of the city, Cornwall and the beach here represent a new start, a haven and a place to heal.

Not so different after all these two women. Cornish magic weaves once again.

Booktrailer Review

Susan @thebooktrailer

I thought this a really clever idea for a Quick Reads title – get people hooked on Lucy Diamond’s beach cafe and then hopefully they’ll pop over to the cafe beach read for another bite? Yes well that will definately work as this is a kind of follow on from the full sized novel. A standalone in its own right but with just enough thread weaving through to make you wonder what happened at the cafe in the first place. That’s clever and even in this bite size sample, Lucy Diamond’s wit and charm shine through as I was immediately transported back to that gorgoeus Cornish beach. You can smell the sea and feel the wind in your hair reading this. And there’s now a little baby into the mix! Now if that’s not cute I don’t know what is.