A New Start at the Beach Hotel

I've always been drawn to books around the Great War era and I enjoyed a couple of other books by this author in her previous series that I was interested to check this one. The fact it is set in a beachside town also drew me in. Sussex 1914: When Edie Moore stepped out of Downland House in the early......more

Having enjoyed this author's previous series, I was looking forward to this new one, set on the South Coast in 1914. Edie is an easy heroine to like, and the mystery of why she has run away to start a new life entwines with another, that of who committed the crime at the guest house where she first......more

A good story set at the start of WWl. I particularly liked that it was in Littlehampton, a place I lived for years. I loved the writing of roads and places I know of and remember. The story itself was engaging, and I found it hard to put the book down. I have bought the next book in the series, and h......more

I was drawn to the cover design of this book - the pretty illustration and the colours. In recent months, I've been enjoying some wartime novels like this, and I enjoyed this one too. It had an old-fashioned feel that I found charming, and I was very invested in the story. One of the reasons I like h......more

Just loved this book couldn’t wait to keep reading it Following the upper class Daughter of a Baron and wanting to just be normal and not just be seen as someone to marry from the noble society Edie hated her life so chose to run away and become a chambermaid in a Hotel and she was so free and able to......more