Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay, Ali McNamara
Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay, Ali McNamara
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Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay

Author: Ali McNamara

Narrator: Katy Sobey

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/27/2019


Synopsis

The sun is shining on the golden castle on Rainbow Bay - and change is in the air!

Amelia is a single mother, doing her very best to look after her young son, Charlie - but money is tight and times are tough. When she first hears that she is the last descendent of the Chesterford family and that she has inherited a Real-Life Castle by the sea, Amelia can't quite believe her ears. But it's true!

She soon finds that owning a castle isn't quite the ticket to sorting out her money problems that she'd first hoped: she can't sell, because the terms of the ancient bequest state that any Chesterford who inherits the castle, must live there and work towards the upkeep and maintenance of the family home. So ever-practical Amelia decides to uproot her little family and move to this magnificent castle by the sea.

Living in a castle on the beautiful Northumberland coast is fun at first, but organising the day-to-day running is a lot more complicated than Amelia first imagined. Luckily she has help from the small band of eccentric and unconventional staff that are already employed there - and a mysterious unseen hand that often gives her a push in the right direction just when she needs it most.

It's only when she meets Tom, a furniture restorer who comes to the castle to help repair some antique furniture, that Amelia realises she might get the fairy-tale ending that she and Charlie truly deserve...

Join bestselling author Ali McNamara in Rainbow Bay, where an inheritance and some sea air are about to work their magic on Amelia's life...

About Ali McNamara

Ali lives in Cambridgeshire with her family and her beloved dogs. In her spare time she likes antique shopping, people watching, and daydreaming, usually accompanied by a good cup of coffee!Ali has two chronic illnesses: M.E./CFS and UCTD and is a disability and invisible disability advocate.To find out more about Ali visit her website: www.alimcnamara.co.ukor follow her on Twitter @AliMcNamara, Facebook and Instagram.

About Katy Sobey

Katy Sobey BiographyKaty is from Bristol and trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.Theatre includes: Orpheus & Eurydice (Insane Root, Suspension Bridge Vaults), Rocky: A HorrorShow (The Wardrobe Theatre), The Woodlanders (Hammerpuzzle/Cheltenham Everyman), Othello(Stafford Gatehouse), Here Be Monsters (UK Tour), Hot Air (Tobacco Factory Theatre/MyrtleTheatre Co.), King John (Hammerpuzzle/The Egg), A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK Tour), Flood(Bike Shed Theatre), Sleeping Beauty and Aladdin (Little Wolf/Loughborough Town Hall), EarlyDoors (Edinburgh Festival) and The Taming of the Shrew (Sam Wanamaker Festival, The Globe).Katy has appeared in several radio plays for BBC Radio 4, including Tess In Winter, The All-Clear,The Shining Heart and Writing the Century: The Dock. She has also featured in multiple episodesof Poetry Please with Roger McGough.On television, Katy has appeared on BBC 1's daytime drama, The Indian Doctor.Katy has recorded numerous audiobooks and is a featured artist on Audible UK's Narrator'sGreatest Hits. She is the voice of the popular young adult series, Geek Girl.


Reviews

Book Reviewed on www.whisperingstories.com Amelia hasn’t had the best of luck for the past few years. Firstly her husband just ups and leaves, writing a note to say he can’t carry on living a lie anymore. He also takes all the money leaving Amelia with their young son Charlie, no money and a mortgage......more

Goodreads review by Dale

Three and a half stars With a part time job and a less than satisfactory housing situation, it’s a struggle for single mother Amelia to care for her son, Charlie. Money is tight and times are tough. Until out of nowhere it seems, she finds she as the last descendant of the Chesterford family she had......more

3.5 ⭐⭐⭐💫 Take me back to that castle, please? 🏰... Its charm and the medieval aura are unbelievable! 😱 *** How unlikely is it that Amelia wakes up one fine day to be told that she is the next in line to inherit this huge estate and turn her miserable life upside down? Let's put it this way, it is an off......more

Goodreads review by Hannah

I couldn't put it down, easy to read in one sitting. The Story is about a single mum called Amelia who has a son named Charlie. They are living in a sky rise flat tower. Until she inherits a castle in Northumberland (well she believes that she's the earl or more likely to be Charlie with how rules w......more

Amelia is a single mother to the ten year old Charlie. They live in a council estate and just make do with barely enough money from her part-time job. Then one day she receives a letter that says that she may have inherited a castle in Northumberland. It turns out that she is the last descendant of......more