Coming Home To Hope Street by Marcie Steele
Step across the cobblestones, pull back the curtains and peek behind the doors in the second instalment of The Hope Street Series. Catch up with old friends and fall in love with new ones in a story of friendship, second chances and new beginnings.
Livvy has no choice but to return to Hope Street, the childhood home she left over twenty years ago. Along with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Pip, she turns up on the doorstep, hoping for forgiveness from her sister.
Hannah thought she’d never see Livvy again. She’s overwhelmed with emotion but locks away her real feelings. How could Livvy stay away without any contact? And why has she come back now?
It isn’t long before the charm of the market town of Somerley begins to work its magic. Hannah is opening a book shop in the square, adjoining The Coffee Stop, and Livvy’s offer to help out brings the sisters closer together.
But when someone from Livvy’s past arrives unannounced too, he threatens everything she’s built up since her return. Can Livvy convince her sister, and her new friends, that her intentions to return were good ones? Or will her dreams of settling down and being happy again become nothing but a closed book?
Author Bio:
Marcie Steele is the pen name of Mel Sherratt. For as long as she can remember, she’s been a meddler of words. Born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, she’s a romantic at heart and has always enjoyed writing about characters that fall in and out of love, have good friends to hang around with, and live in communities with great spirit.
She can often be found sitting in her favourite coffee shop, sipping a cappuccino and eating a chocolate chip cookie, either catching up with friends or writing on her laptop. Whether she writes crime or women’s fiction, she loves making up things for a living.
You can find more about Marcie Steele on Mel Sherratt’s website www.melsherratt.co.uk at Twitter: https://twitter.com/writermels and at Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MelSherrattauthor/
Review
Now if you are in the market for a cozy, heartwarming read then ‘Coming Home To Hope Street’ is the one for you! I really like this type of series which uses the same location but each book features a story which a different set of characters. It means you can either read the whole series or just pick up one of them as a stand-alone and enjoy them either way! I think I will be going and reading the others in this series though as I did really enjoy this one. I read it in one sitting and you know that feeling you get when you are under a blanket with a good cup of hot chocolate - that’s what you get with this book.
I liked the fact that the teenagers were very well rounded and sensible! All the characters are great in this book - but I especially liked Hannah. Mainly because I want to open my own bookshop!! I am quite jealous. But I also liked the relationship between the sisters. I don’t know how I would deal with a sister landing on my doorstep after so long.
The community aspect was something I loved in this book as it’s not been an environment I have ever been part of. Maybe because I live in a huge city you just don’t really get to know your neighbours in the same way. I need to move to a small town or village!
As I said this is a great feel good read and I hope you give it a chance! Let me know what you think of it if you do.
