An absolutely hilarious, uplifting summer read about living life to the full
Meg Larson thought she had everything she wanted: she works in the local bakery, she's months away from marrying her high-school sweetheart, and home is beautiful, sunny Seashell Cove, where the sky is blue, the sea is turquoise and the sand is golden.
Except that the bakery is up for sale and her fianc Sam's more interested in bikes than their relationship. When Meg receives shocking news about her family, he's on a cycling tour and ignoring her calls - and posting selfies on Facebook with a female cyclist he looks far too cosy with...
Luckily the bakery's estate agent, Nathan, is understanding and funny, and as the summer goes on an unexpected friendship blossoms. When the bakery is given a second lease of life under a mysterious new owner, Meg realises a change might be exactly what she needs too.
Will Meg find the happy-ever-after she dreams of in Seashell Cove?
An uplifting, laugh-out-loud rom com that will make you dream of romantic days at the beach. Perfect for fans of Debbie Johnson, Holly Martin and Jenny Oliver.
What readers are saying about The Bakery at Seashell Cove
'I loved this story, it swept me away to a quaint English seaside village where anything could happen and where a happy ending is guaranteed... If you love Jenny Colgan, then Karen Clarke should be on your to-be-read list.' For the Love of Books, 5 stars
'Now Nathan the love interest sent my pulse racing... I fell head over heels in love with him myself... The blossoming friendship between the two will certainly have your heart melting... A heart-warming and very much lighthearted read. I loved how the author threw some little surprises in there for the readers making this novel extremely hard to put down... The Bakery At Seashell Cove is a deliciously, wondrous story that you will devour within no time at all. It is escapism at its finest and I really enjoyed every minute of it.' By the Letter Book Reviews, 5 stars
'I couldn't wait to read this book as I loved all Karen's other books, and she certainly didn't disappoint at all... Such an amazing read, I just didn't want to put it down. It's worth far more than the five stars I have given it... Full of romance... Funny and heart-warming... Fantastic read, I highly recommend it... Simply fantastic read.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
'A wonderfully heart-warming story... I loved the friendshipsin this... This book made me smile a lot... I will definitely be reading more from Karen in the future.' Goodreads reviewer
'Must be read if you like a very good, feel-good summer read full of love and hope with the bonus of tasty treats... Karen Clarke has very quickly become one of my favourite authors.' Chells and Books, 5 stars
The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable.Witches (known as gua in the Buli language or as suanggi in regional Malay) appear to be ordinary humans but sometimes, especially at night, they take other forms and attack people in order to kill them and eat their livers. They are seemingly everywhere and nowhere at the same time. The reality of gua, therefore, can never be pinned down. The title of the book comes from the empty nautilus shells that regularly drift ashore around Buli village. Convention has it that if you find a live nautilus, you are a gua. Like the empty shells, witchcraft always seems to recede from experience.Bubandt begins the book by recounting his own confusion and frustration in coming to terms with the contradictory and inaccessible nature of witchcraft realities in Buli. A detailed ethnography of the encompassing inaccessibility of Buli witchcraft leads him to the conclusion that much of the anthropological literature, which views witchcraft as a system of beliefs with genuine explanatory power, is off the mark. Witchcraft for the Buli people doesn't explain anything. In fact, it does the opposite: it confuses, obfuscates, and frustrates. Drawing upon Jacques Derrida's concept of aporia—an interminable experience that remains continuously in doubt—Bubandt suggests the need to take seriously people's experiential and epistemological doubts about witchcraft, and outlines, by extension, a novel way of thinking about witchcraft and its relation to modernity.
The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable.Witches (known as gua in the Buli language or as suanggi in regional Malay) appear to be ordinary humans but sometimes, especially at night, they take other forms and attack people in order to kill them and eat their livers. They are seemingly everywhere and nowhere at the same time. The reality of gua, therefore, can never be pinned down. The title of the book comes from the empty nautilus shells that regularly drift ashore around Buli village. Convention has it that if you find a live nautilus, you are a gua. Like the empty shells, witchcraft always seems to recede from experience.Bubandt begins the book by recounting his own confusion and frustration in coming to terms with the contradictory and inaccessible nature of witchcraft realities in Buli. A detailed ethnography of the encompassing inaccessibility of Buli witchcraft leads him to the conclusion that much of the anthropological literature, which views witchcraft as a system of beliefs with genuine explanatory power, is off the mark. Witchcraft for the Buli people doesn't explain anything. In fact, it does the opposite: it confuses, obfuscates, and frustrates. Drawing upon Jacques Derrida's concept of aporia—an interminable experience that remains continuously in doubt—Bubandt suggests the need to take seriously people's experiential and epistemological doubts about witchcraft, and outlines, by extension, a novel way of thinking about witchcraft and its relation to modernity.
Автор: Clarke, Karen (university Of Manchester Uk) Название: The cafe at seashell cove: a heartwarmin ISBN: 178681367X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786813671 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2021.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A history of shells and the creatures that make them, revealing their outsized role in human affairs and what they have to tell us about the changing oceans.
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