If you enjoyed

Christmas Gifts at the Beach Café,

then you’ll love

The Year of Taking Chances

The bestselling author of The Beach Café is back with another warm and witty novel, all about New Year’s Eve and brand-new starts . . .

In the small Suffolk village of Larkmead, Gemma is throwing a New Year’s Eve party. It was supposed to be a small do, but sociable husband Spencer has gone overboard with the invites and now half of Larkmead is here, including some surprise guests: Caitlin, who has returned to the village where she spent her teenage years, to pack up her much-missed mum’s house and try and figure out what to do with her life; and Saffron, a PR whizz who is hiding a life-altering secret that no amount of spin can change.

At the party the three women meet over a glass or two of bubbly and pass around fortune-cookies as Big Ben counts down to midnight. There’ll be no futile diet vows, or promises to hit the gym every night, for these women: they are interested in really changing their lives for the better.

As the year unfolds, the women come to lean on each other more and more as shocks, disappointments and rifts test them to their limits. But those fortune-cookie messages start seeming strangely accurate . . .

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