by Sarah Hope
STUCK IN A RELENTLESS cycle of twelve-hour shifts, dodging bailiffs and motherhood-guilt, Pippa Jenkins can't see a way out.
Until she receives an opportunity of a lifetime and she inherits her Great Aunt's cafe by the beach.
Does she risk the little she does have to follow her dreams?
Moving her young son to the seaside to run The Little Beach Cafe proves harder than Pippa ever imagined, particularly because she can't actually bake.
With the help of new friends, can she make a success of her new venture or will she have to return to her life in the City?
When her son's father turns up, will he be able to win her back or will she find love elsewhere?
A single parent romance filled with self-belief, second chances and love.
http://mybook.to/ETTheLittleBeachCafe
‘Escape To...Berry Grove Bed & Breakfast’
Consumed by a corporate job in the City, Kim Reynolds is blissfully unaware how unhappy her daughter, Mia, is.
Until Mia runs out of school and finally confides in her mother. Faced with a shock wake-up call, Kim realises things need to change.
Will a move to a seaside Bed & Breakfast provide the escape they need to change their lives for the better?
When Danny, Kim’s childhood sweetheart, turns up, buried feelings and a complicated secret threaten to surface and jeopardise their newly discovered peaceful lifestyle.
Can the two people Kim loves most in the world understand and forgive her for keeping them apart?
A single parent romance filled with self-belief, second chances and love.
http://mybook.to/BerryGroveBandB
‘Escape To...The Seaside Ice Cream Parlour’
Trapped in an endless loop of unemployment and sofa-surfing, Jenny Weaver can’t see a way to give her daughter, Grace, a better future.
Until Jenny’s best friend, Helen, decides to travel halfway around the world to heal her broken heart and begs Jenny to manage her business, The Seaside Ice Cream Parlour, in her absence.
Can Jenny relocate her little family and build an idyllic life for them in a new town by the coast?
Running The Seaside Ice Cream Parlour with next to no experience in the world of retail, let alone catering, tests more than her resilience.
When Nick, Helen’s ex, makes it impossible for Jenny to ignore him, ill feelings quickly turn to friendship, leaving them both wanting more.
Can Jenny put her feelings aside or will truths be told which will change her mind about her and Nick’s future?
A single parent romance filled with self-belief, love and second chances.
http://mybook.to/ETIceCreamParlour
‘Escape To...Christmas at Corner Cottage’
With her marriage over, a tenancy for Corner Cottage signed and school places secured for her children, Chrissy Marsden is ready to embrace a new start.
Reigniting her passion for sewing, she finds herself being hired to alter a wedding dress.
Will friendship and a chance to start her own dressmaking business be all she finds, or will the bride’s brother, Luke, offer something else entirely?
Just as Chrissy feels she is finally getting her life back on track, a surprise pregnancy and a lack of trust threatens her new relationship.
Can a Christmas Eve wedding bring Chrissy and Luke back together?
A single parent romance filled with self-belief, love and second chances.
http://mybook.to/ETChristmasCottage
WOMEN’S FICTION BOOKS written by Sarah Hope:
‘Izzy’s Story: Life After Separation (The Happiness Club Book 1)’
Heartbroken and alone, Izzy looks up at the dingy bedsit her and her two children must now call home.
When Izzy’s husband tells her their marriage is over and refuses to leave the marital
home, she loses everything: her home, her job, her friends.
She finds herself living in her brother’s bedsit, trying to scrape enough money together from the state benefits she is forced to claim to feed herself and her children.
With her confidence plunging, she struggles to recognise herself and her new life.
A chance glance at a poster, and a little encouragement from a friend, leads her to join The Happiness Club, a support group for the divorced and separated. Will they offer her the understanding and insight into her new role and help her to carve a new future?
The rollercoaster of emotions felt after a marriage breakdown are portrayed honestly and realistically in a way any newly single mum will be able to empathise with.
http://mybook.to/izzysstory
‘Izzy’s Story: Moving On (The Happiness Club Book 2)’
Follow Izzy as she continues on her rollercoaster journey as a single mum.
The marital home is sold and she knows she must start to move on. But can she?
She faces practical obstacles such as, who will rent a house to an unemployed single mother to two children? And she faces hurdles of the heart, will she be able to win Matt back? Does she even want to? Does he?
Will Izzy come to realise that she is on her own?
That what once was her and Matt against the world is now her, just her?
Follow her as she dips her toe into the dating game and comes to terms with life in a part-time family.
http://mybook.to/izzysstorymovingon
‘Izzy’s Story: A Second Life’ (The Happiness Club Book 3)’
As Izzy's life moves on after her marriage breakdown, is she finally able to create a new life for herself and her children?
Follow her as she regains control of her life, begins a new job and commits to dating.
When Matt files for divorce, can she commit herself to finding love again, or will truths come to light which will rebuild the walls around her heart forever?
Will she be able to cling onto her newfound confidence as their new home is turned from a safe haven into a place she no longer feels comfortable living in?
Can her true friends from The Happiness Club keep her spirits up as she goes through the emotional turmoil and motherhood-guilt returning to work throws in her path?
As anyone who has been through a break-up will know, history has a way of trying to slice through the new reality of life. Ready or not, can Izzy take control of this new stage of her life?
http://mybook.to/IzzysStorySecondLife
‘A Locket of Memories’
A story of two neighbours and an unlikely friendship.
Wracked with guilt and loss, the forced adoption of Enid’s son has painfully shaped her life.
For the last sixty three years she has dedicated herself to finding her son, but with the cruel onset of angina and health problems she is only too aware that time may be running out.
Across the street Lynette discovers that her loving husband has been leading a double life.
She struggles to hold her family together whilst he tears it apart.
A tragic night’s events throws the two women together, igniting a friendship that will shape both their futures.
http://mybook.to/alocketofmemories
About the Author
Sarah Hope lives in Central England with her two children and an array of pets. When she became a single parent, a little under seven years ago, she craved novels with single parent characters who she could relate to. Finding the supply of fiction featuring single parents limited, she decided to write the stories she wanted to read. It has become a passion of hers to write true-to-life fiction and to portray the emotional turmoil and some of the repercussions that are faced during the life-changing events of separation and divorce,
Read more at Sarah Hope’s site.
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