Cece Downing Starts Over : A warm, witty novel about starting over, finding love, and discovering where you truly belong - Soon Wiley

Cece Downing Starts Over : A warm, witty novel about starting over, finding love, and discovering where you truly belong - Soon Wiley

Soon Wiley

£9.99
  • Pages · 368 pages
  • Publication Date · 10/09/2026
  • Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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A witty, heartfelt novel about a young woman who leaves everything behind to work on an oyster farm in a small New England town - perfect for readers of Lily King's Writers & Lovers and Jenny Jackson's The Shampoo Effect. `Fun, thoughtful, romantic!'Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful and Dear EdwardA new town, a new life, a new man - get ready for the reinvention of Cece Downing . . . �Sacked from her city job and following a messy break up with her fianc�, Cece decides it's time for a new start, which is how she ends up in a New England coastal town working as a deckhand on an oyster boat and falling for her neighbour, Morgan, a handsome shipyard worker. But when plans for an oyster farm divide the community, �and a family crisis forces her to reevaluate her choices, Cece must decide what she's prepared to risk for the life she wants . . . `This novel has everything I love about a New England summer: it's warm, fun, the people are witty, and there's a hot guy who works in the boatyard' Annie Hartnett, Rabbit Cake and The Road to Tender Hearts`An intimate coastal portrait of reinvention, tracing a woman who trades certainty for saltwater' Weike Wang, Rental House

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