Full English
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4.5 • 33 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
After a publicly humiliating divorce, best-selling author Emma Volant runs away to hide in the seaside English village of Amberwick, where she doesn’t know another living soul. She wants nothing more than to surrender to her broken heart in private. However, when the locals discover their newest resident is world famous, they gather at the local pub and hatch a plan to draw Emma out of her self-imposed isolation, hoping her celebrity status will elevate the village’s reputation to something more than a holiday hotspot. It doesn’t take long for them to try to rope their favorite bartender, Brogan, into the act.
Born and raised in Amberwick, Brogan McKay has built a comfortable life by never overreaching. Part-time jobs and short-term flings have always been good enough for her, but when she meets her beautiful and wounded new neighbor, Brogan realizes Emma has the potential to wreck the carefully controlled expectations she uses to protect her heart.
Despite their obvious attraction and growing friendship, both Emma and Brogan are in firm agreement that neither of them is in a position to look for love, but how long can they fight their fears and desires as the events and people around them all conspire to create a full English love story?
Customer Reviews
Wonderful storytelling
I fell in love and was so moved and loved 10 year old Reggie in this story. You will as well. Rachel Spangler knows how to write in a way that defines even a young secondary character such as Reggie (short for Regina) that you can identify even your own 10 year old self and smile. This is a slow angst story that fleshes out just about every character in it so well done.
It’s a story about insecurity and self image and how much how we are treated by others (some well meaning and some not so well meaning) shapes the image we have of ourselves whether true or not. Sometimes, if we’re lucky, we find people who take the time to see who we really are and help us find our real selves and all the good things we have going for us and won’t let us settle for the mistaken impressions others have fed us.
It is also an interesting perspective into a charming seaside English village as seen through the eyes of an American who only finds herself there because of all the stories her own grandmother had told her of growing up there as a young girl.
I truly did enjoy this one and can’t wait to read Modern English as I’m hoping to see some of these truly wonderful characters again, even if it might just be in passing. 5/5 ~castaway