Product Description
by Rebecca Holmes (Author)
Twelve feel-good stories of love, family and friendship set in the English Lake District, which have all previously appeared in The People's Friend. If you enjoy warm-hearted stories with a satisfying ending, these are for you. - An initially unwelcome passenger brings a new perspective to a marriage proposal by Coniston Water. -A couple discover a hidden tarn with a secret life of its own. -A trek in the Langdales causes tensions between two friends. -A would-be Victorian poet falls for a Lakeland shepherdess. -A broken-down car on an isolated fell road helps a young woman put the past behind her. 'Rebecca Holmes is a favourite writer with People's Friend readers, always providing an entertaining, satisfying story with a strong emotional heart and the kind of well-developed characters that make you care about them.' Shirley E. Blair, Commissioning Fiction editor, the People's Friend magazine.
Author Biography
Rebecca Holmes has had almost 200 stories published in popular magazines including The People's Friend, Woman's Weekly, My Weekly, Take a Break Fiction Feast and Ireland's Own, as well as included in several anthologies, along with non-fiction pieces in Landscape Magazine, The People's Friend, Irelands' Own and Yours Magazine. Her first Young Adult novel, 'A Silent World' was short-listed for the Lucy Cavendish Prize 2014 and longlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award. Hailing originally from Lancashire, she is a frequent visitor to the Lake District, is married, with two grown-up daughters and a cat, and currently lives in Leicestershire.
