Blurb:
Are you ready to meet
Miss Moonshine? Life may never be the same again …
It’s summer in Haven
Bridge and Miss Moonshine is getting ready for a busy season. From the window
of her Wonderful Emporium, at the heart of the pretty Yorkshire town, she
watches and waits, weaving plans to bring happiness to all who step through her
door. For Miss Moonshine is no ordinary shopkeeper. She may not have what you
want, but she will always have what you need…
Nine romantic novelists from Yorkshire and Lancashire, including best-selling and award-winning authors, have joined together to create this anthology of uplifting stories guaranteed to warm your heart. This magical collection of contemporary romances will make you laugh, cry and wish for a Miss Moonshine in your own life.
My Review:
From this anthology I am very familiar with Melinda Hammond, I’m fond of her books in Harlequin Mills & Boon under penname Sarah Mallory thus I eagerly and voluntarily offered myself to review this and I didn’t have any regret at all to spend my entire day on reading it. Set in Yorkshire town of Haven Bridge, here nine absolute amazing authors wrote vivid and divine stories of Miss Moonshine in Haven Bridge.
The first story involves swap time from present to the past within Miss Moonshine’s emporium when the heroine should play her role and shouldn’t be changing the history Miss Moonshine insists until midnight, then you will be lead into a second story of a young girl who steals a pen from Miss Moonshine’s emporium and gives it to her grandpa as a present yet her grandpa seems rather unhappy with it. The third is a Frenchman who is assigned to take two weeks holiday, find new idea for the perfume fragrance and coincidentally encounters Miss Moonshine on his way to his destination. The fourth is about a mechanic woman who has to repair Miss Moonshine’s vintage car and requires her ex-fiancé’s assistance, the fifth tells about a young girl who cares about Miss Moonshine and unexpectedly meets a handsome man who owns Greymoor Hall. Further the sixth which tells about a television program that the two participants have to find valuable thing within Miss Moonshine’s emporium that leads them into surprising adventure. The seventh where a ghost story in a baker’s flat spreads around Haven Bridge, discouraging people to order the cake and leading two paranormal investigators in front of the baker’s door. The eight is about the a long-lost old sweethearts that couldn’t be together due to their future decision and meet again in Haven Bridge when they are widow and widower, and the last a young musician girl who misses her stop and gets off in Haven Bridge and meets Miss Moonshine at the station instead.
Since morning to night I was so completely immersed and preoccupied with each story that I wondered how Miss Moonshine brings so much wonderful joy and amusement, unexpected encounters and lively neighborhood despite her eccentric style and antiquities in her emporium. While reading it I wish I could apply for an assistant in her emporium or could visit Haven Bridge and feel the magic myself. This marvelous collection made me smile, scream with joy, feel sad and content and so many other emotions (to be frank, I am an extremely enthusiastic reader). It’s like Miss Moonshine brought a magic on my birthday herself. Thank you, Melinda Hammond for this ARC, I highly recommend and totally enjoyed reading this.
Rate: 5 of 5
Jacqui Cooper
Living on the edge of
the Yorkshire moors, Jacqui Cooper doesn’t have to look far for inspiration for
her writing. Her short stories regularly appear in popular women’s magazines,
including Woman’s Weekly, The People’s Friend and Take a Break. Writing
has always been her dream and she is thrilled to now be able to do it full time.
Sophie Claire
Sophie Claire writes
emotional stories set in England and in sunny Provence, where she spent her
summers as a child. Previously she worked in marketing and proofreading
academic papers, but now she’s delighted to spend her days dreaming up
heartwarming contemporary romance stories set in beautiful places.
Marie Laval
Originally from Lyon in
France, Marie now lives in the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire. Her bestselling
novels include Escape to the Little Chateau, shortlisted for the 2021
RNA Jackie Collins Romantic Suspense Award, and her new romance Happy Dreams
at Mermaid Cove is available from Amazon and various digital platforms.
Angela Wren
Angela Wren is an actor
and director at a theatre in Yorkshire, UK. She loves stories and reading and
writes the Jacques Forêt crime novels set in France. Her short stories vary
between romance, memoire, mystery, and historical. Angela has had two one-act
plays recorded for local radio.
Kate Field
Kate Field lives in
Lancashire with her husband, daughter and cat. Her debut novel won the Romantic
Novelists’ Association Joan Hessayon Award for new writers. Kate writes
heartwarming, uplifting love stories and her latest novel, Finding Home,
is available now from Amazon and other retailers.
Mary Jayne Baker
Mary Jayne Baker is a
novelist from Bingley, West Yorkshire. Since her debut in 2016 she has
published eight romantic comedies, including A Question of Us, which was
the winner of the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Comedy of the Year
Award 2020. Mary Jayne also writes humorous, emotional women’s fiction under
the name Lisa Swift, and World War Two sagas as Gracie Taylor.
Helen Pollard
Helen is a member of
the Romantic Novelists’ Association and the society Authors. You can find about
Helen’s books on Amazon.
Melinda Hammond
Melinda Hammond is a
West Country girl who spent thirty happy years in the Yorkshire Pennines
walking the moors and thinking up her stories. In 2018 she decided to realize a
lifelong ambition to live by the sea and now writes her award-winning romantic
historical adventures from new home in the Scottish Highlands. Melinda also
writes as Sarah Mallory for Harlequin Mills & Boon and has published more
than fifty novels.
Helena Fairfax
Helena Fairfax is a freelance editor and author of romantic fiction, as well as a non-fiction social history called Struggle and Suffrage in Halifax: Women’s Lives and the Fight for Equality. Readers can keep in touch on social media, where she’s the only Helena Fairfax, or subscribe to her newsletter for book news, photos of her beloved Yorkshire moors, and the occasional free stuff.
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