This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.
There are a few women’s fiction authors who create such a sense of community with their books, you want to crawl inside the pages, buy a little chocolate-box cottage and make your life right there alongside your favourite characters. Alexandra Brown is one of those authors.
We’ve been enamoured with the fictional country village of Tindledale since The Great Christmas Knit Off was released last year. Thankfully, we didn’t have to wait too long to be reunited with the quirky residents of Tindledale – The Great Village Show was released in July. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s warm, utterly charming and the perfect book to end the summer with, as reviewer Kirsty Nicole Pole discovered this week.
Tindledale is in a tizzy …
The Village Show competition is coming around again and after last year’s spectacular failure, the villagers are determined to win. Meg, teacher at the local school, is keen to help and to impose some much-needed order.
After a terse encounter with a newcomer to the village, Meg discovers that it is celebrity chef and culinary bad boy, Dan Wright. Meg thinks he is arrogant and rude but rumour has it that Dan is opening a new restaurant in the village which could really put Tindledale on the map.
As things come together, villagers old and new all start to come out of the woodwork, including new arrival Jessie who seems to have it all. But first impressions can be deceptive and Meg discovers that when it comes to Tindledale – and Dan – nothing is ever quite as it seems …
Want to find out more about Tindledale and Alexandra Brown? You can visit Alex’s author website or pop along to say hello on Twitter and Facebook.