The Cornish Beach Hut Café by Jane Linfoot EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Jane Linfoot
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Just outside St Aidan, Cornwall
Sequins and a following wind
Wednesday
Wouldn’t you know it? After three hundred miles of trouble-free driving
since London, half an hour before St Aidan I opt for the short cut down the
lanes, and now my trusty Mini convertible is at a standstill, stuck behind a
line of cars.
I groan at Shadow the dog, who lifts his big brown head briefly, then
settles back across the back seat, buoyed up by the bags I couldn’t fit in the
boot. ‘It’s only April, it’s not even warm enough for us to have the hood
down. Surely the holiday hold-ups can’t have started already?’
As I smack the flat of my hand on the steering wheel, even singing
along to Miley Cyrus’s ‘Flowers’ doesn’t help any. I hope this first
snowflake of doubt about moving back to Cornwall doesn’t become an
avalanche of all the downsides I’ve forgotten in the decade since I left. As I
look over the hedge to the expanse of pale blue sea beyond the fields, and
catch my first glimpse of St Aidan, its picturesque pastel-coloured cottages
stacked across the hillside in the curve of the bay, I hang on tight to the
wave of wild optimism that brought me here.
When my mum rang me at the end of January to ask if I would like to
buy the beach hut her friend Ivy was selling for a knock-down price, it felt
like serendipity. True, a dilapidated shack on the sand dunes in a village at
the edge of the world wasn’t anywhere on my radar at the time, but with my
life in London crumbling around me, it felt like the lifeline I’d been waiting
for.
Four years earlier I was in my late twenties and everything I’d ever
wanted had finally clicked into place. I was a team manager at a buzzy postindustrial bar called The Circus, where the only things loftier than the drink
prices were the high-wire performers. I was in love with my adorable
boyfriend, Dillon, a hot-shot engineer and childhood friend with whom I’d
reconnected with in St Aidan town centre the New Year’s Eve I was twentythree. Home was a swanky rental in N16, and we were sure enough about
our future to have secretly made our own wedding rings.
There we were,
researching honeymoon destinations, debating whether to spend the savings
on a flat deposit, a fabulous elopement or the wedding of the decade.
Speeding towards the public announcement of our engagement. And then
one routine cervical smear test result blew all that out of the water.
Except that’s not entirely true. My cancer diagnosis knocked the breath
out of us, but after that I threw everything at it, and Dillon was with me all
the way. When I wasn’t able to work, I couldn’t have asked for better
support. When I went back to waitressing and it wore me out, I even
managed to reboot my career, and started doing audio-book narration
instead.
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