Reviews and Comments

Good story about personal development and community togetherness in the face of political machinations, with three generations of women centre-stage and some delightful other characters. Ending pleasingly leaves a few questions waiting for a sequel. I hope my library has more in the series.

Not quite enough commas for my taste - I started school in the 1940s - but punctuation better than
the average of recent books I have read.

Other notes for proofreader (far fewer than for many books):
"Barbra Streisand" - OK, this is fiction, but you should use correct spelling when clearly referring to real people
"the nuns' garden"
"back-pedalling"

Plenty of reviewers have already covered this book in great detail. I had read one of the predecessors in the Heartcross series so this was marginally even more fun than if read as a standalone. I would now like to read the other book and any future books in the series.
Comments for the proofreader or author:
Why write down details of an email when you could have simply forwarded it to Stuart?
How did Allie know the second client had a dog when she had been watching guinea pigs in the surgery since they arrived?
"Any way" is not the same as "anyway".
Somebody's son is "he", not "it".
Allie was wrong to say she had lived in Heartcross all her life.
A cottage described as being on the outskirts of a village is hardly "in the heart" of it.
Allie's surname capitalization varies throughout the book, and the back-cover blurb chooses the less common version.

A tall house in Trevay (not the one illustrated on the cover!) has quite a history. At least three generations of one family have lived there by the end. Really enjoyable book about family love and hate and forgiveness, with a dash of professional impropriety and more than a dash of exotic foods.

Some characters, e.g. vicar Simon Canter, have appeared in other books but this one is not stated to be part of a series.

Inconsistent punctuation, a fault shared with a large proportion of modern books; blindingly clear example on page 145. The decade-jumps zigzagging between the 1970s and 2019 are a bit unsettling, as are the jumps between locations on the 2018 wedding day.

Poor word choices or typos: lie for lay and lay for laid [both transitive], everyday for every day, too for to [twice], put for putting, him for he, parent's and parents for parents', latter for last, were for was. tears no. 'No.' for tears. 'No.', Adela for Sennen.

A "tumble dryer" becomes a "tumble drier" nine lines later.

Confusion of guest numbers on p 234, but the reader knows more than the speaker does.

Nice traditional sort of typeface, with the 12.5/16 being kind to readers, as is the starting of each chapter on a right-hand page.

Entertaining science fiction with some deep love stories.
Above-average quality of punctuation and I noticed only half a dozen typos.
But it's a fictitious world where Hawaiians see meteors during what should be their daytime, and tides don't respect gravity.