SYNOPSIS
When twenty-seven-year-old Posy arrives at picture-perfect Oleander House in the Somerset village of Astercombe, she is enchanted. Adopted when she was just a baby, Posy is excited to re-connect with her birth family and help out on the family cider farm with its old stone walls and bees buzzing in the hedgerows.
There’s just one tiny problem – her new next-door neighbour, haughty, handsome vineyard-owner Lachlan. Lachlan has taken an instant dislike to Posy, and after a furious argument when she ventures on his land, she’s pretty certain there’s not a heart of gold beneath his frosty exterior.
Yet as she falls in love with the flower-filled hedgerows and apple-green fields of her new life, she discovers more about her grumpy neighbour. Even though he acts like the world is out to get him, she can’t ignore the sad expression in his dark eyes.
And when Posy discovers the heartbreaking secret that is tearing Lachlan apart, she understands why he has shut the door on the world and vows to help him, as well as the vineyard, which has fallen on hard times. Yet just as Lachlan lets Posy in, a terrible night threatens to destroy everything she has begun to care about and puts someone she loves at risk. Will her dream life in the country come at an awful price?
There’s just one tiny problem – her new next-door neighbour, haughty, handsome vineyard-owner Lachlan. Lachlan has taken an instant dislike to Posy, and after a furious argument when she ventures on his land, she’s pretty certain there’s not a heart of gold beneath his frosty exterior.
Yet as she falls in love with the flower-filled hedgerows and apple-green fields of her new life, she discovers more about her grumpy neighbour. Even though he acts like the world is out to get him, she can’t ignore the sad expression in his dark eyes.
And when Posy discovers the heartbreaking secret that is tearing Lachlan apart, she understands why he has shut the door on the world and vows to help him, as well as the vineyard, which has fallen on hard times. Yet just as Lachlan lets Posy in, a terrible night threatens to destroy everything she has begun to care about and puts someone she loves at risk. Will her dream life in the country come at an awful price?
Title: The little orchard on the lane
Author: Tilly Tennant
Publisher: Bookouture
Publication date: April 16, 2021
REVIEW
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
In the author's note at the end of this book the author says that working on this through the second half of 2020 was "a welcome distraction and a lovely escape from the miserable news reports" and guess what, reading it in 2021 has been a welcome distraction and a lovely escape from the miserable news reports too!
Tilly Tennant has become one of my to go authors when in need of some light and uplifting stories that make you forget about all the negative things around.
I loved how this time the story was not mainly centered in the romance part but in Posy's need of learning about her origins while trying to establish a relationship with her newly found family. I loved how she included her adoptive mum in the process and her camaraderie with Asa made me smile more than once.
I completely understand Posy when, after just one visit to her family's place, she wanted to move there. I would to! The gorgeous descriptions and all the lovely folks around (even the grouchy one) would have had me packing my cases in an eye blink too!
Without going into spoilers I'll say that I really liked the ending because of Posy's final decision.
Quick and easy heartwarming story about second chances and new beginnings while trying to find your place in life.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
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