Good characters and an interesting storyline, though I felt the ending was a little quick but it was a good enjoyable read. Quick and nice.

I was sent this book by netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I'm always delighted to read a Phillipa Ashley novel, and was even more excited when I read this one's unusual premise.

There is a lot going on in this story, apart from Rose's search for her donor. I learnt something about sailing, boats and boat building for a start, not to mention snippets of archaeology, and local legends and folklore. Then there is the wonderful community spirit, the friendships, the sibling angst, and a pair of gorgeous brothers. Oh, and a delicious slow burning romance.

Another lovely book from the queen of uplifting romance.

An Endless Cornish Summer by Phillips Ashley

Rose Vernon is headed to a quiet Cornish Village to find the man who saved her life - a stem cell donor.

This was a very delightful story. A young woman has a stem cell transplant and sets out to find her donor. I liked reading about the boatyard, the marina, and the sailing. Very romantic. I enjoyed this book.

Thanks to Net Galley for sending me an advanced reader’s copy for my review.

Ms Ashley always delivers a sweet hopeful story that leaves her readers feeling hugged! All of her books and especially this one!

If you are a regular here, you know just how much I adore Phillipa Ashley’s writing, but his latest one just didn’t hit the spot for me. Ashley has such a way of evoking a place, but the Cornwall in this book felt flat. The characters, well-rounded but not believable. Everything just tied too nicely into one big bow.

The first 10% of the book was rough and I wondered if it was the formatting issues that contributed towards that. Mostly, it just seemed stilted and unnatural. The formatting of the dialogue got confusing at times as well. The plot is OK. It has an interesting premise: a recipient of a bone marrow donation, who is guided by a postcard to Falford. This is when the big bow element comes in though and everything gets tied up rather nicely at the end. For me, it just made the whole situation unbelievable, however wonderful it may be.

The character of Rose is a little bland for me and I was a bit detached from her. The character of Oriel on the other hand I found fascinating and I would love another book entirely about her. The book took me a while to get into and feels predictable. It’s certainly not the best in the series.

A nice easy beach read, but there are better Phillipa Ashley’s to start with.

Adore this book. I want to be there and emerge myself in the life and times of everyone there. I do hope more books are written in this village and is about other couples

When Rose moves to Cornwall for the summer she has more than the beautiful scenery on her mind, she wants to track down the person who saved her life! This book really draws you in and you find yourself caring about the characters and wanting them to find their happy endings. I can’t wait to read the next in the series.

An Endless Cornish Summer is like a warm drop of essence for the soul which is heart- wrenching but also uplifting and inspiring at the same time. It is not the kind of story I read usually. The book's main character Rose is a person who survives a terminal illness due to the donation by an unknown person. The author has brought in front of the reader her fears, her despair and the hopelessness she feels at her situation in a very believable manner. But I usually am not a fan of reading such life and death conditions.

But the author has also managed to bring forth Rose's determination to survive, the support and optimism the people around her give her for her battle against the illness, that I couldn't help but feel inspired at the end of it. Props to the author for that.

The story also follows Rose when she tries to find who was the anonymous donor that saved her life. And she comes across Finn, who might be the donor. Despite trying not to get too involved with him nor the other people she meets in the Cornish town, she forms deep connections with many people around her. Her journey towards living after her scary journey towards life is the major part of the story. And that has been told in an engaging and heart- touching way. The book is worth 4 stars for me. Thanks to Netgalley, publisher and the author Phililipa Ashley for the ARC of this book and all the opinions in this review are my own.

An Endless Cornish Summer
Phillipa Ashley

Rose ist auf der Suche nach Antworten. Als Knochenmarkspendeempfängerin sucht sie ihren Lebensretter und begibt sich deshalb an einem traumhaften Ort an der Küste von Cornwell.
Dort kann sie nicht nur ihrer Arbeit als Archäologin nachgehen, sondern auch der Frage, wer ihr vor einiger Zeit anonym das Leben gerettet hat.
Trotz dieses interessanten Plots und den sympathischen Hauptfiguren ist mir der Einstieg in die Geschichte zunächst nicht ganz leicht gefallen. Erst plätscherte die Story ein bisschen seicht vor sich hin.
Doch nachdem ich mich erst einmal in die Geschichte eingefunden hatte, wurde ich mit einem flüssig zu lesenden Sommerroman belohnt.
 
Insgesamt hatte ich jedoch das Gefühl, dass sich die Autorin ein bisschen zu viele Themen vorgenommen hat: Krebserkrankung, Knochenmarkspende, Trauer, Verlust, um nur einige zu nennen. Ich persönlich mag es nicht, wenn eine Geschichte von zu vielen Problematiken überlaufen ist.

Insgesamt war das Buch jedoch ein recht unterhaltsamer Liebesroman der mir einige schöne Lesestunden bereitet hat.

A delightful easy read filled with likeable characters. Rose Vernon had mostly been raised by her grandmother Marge, as her single mother had a dream job as a TV producer of a major series in America. Rose had a lovely life with her grandmother until she started to feel very unwell at Cambridge university, and tests showed she had aplastic anaemia, and needed a bone marrow transplant. Sadly nobody in her family could help so she was placed on the marrow bone donation register. It was an agonising wait, but amazingly she eventually received the call, there was a matching donor. Rose needed chemotherapy to destroy her remaining stem cells, she felt very wretched for a while, but the transplant was a huge success, so she was eventually able to go back to Cambridge and finish her PHD, and gain a position as a lecturer in archaeology.

Then, sadly, Grandma Marge died. She left her cottage to Rose, along with a letter in which she told her to find out who the donor was, and thank them for the gift of life. So she sent off a letter to the donor, by way of the donor charity; and a few weeks later was surprised to receive an answer. Neither of them had given names, the donor charity didn’t allow that, but the picture on the front of his card (the only information given by the charity was that the donor was male), made Rose believe that he came from Falford, in Cornwall. By chance she found a summer job leading a dig at an ancient site on the Lizard Head, close to Falford; as well as a few other ancient Cornish antiquity sites, she might have the opportunity to find her donor.

And so the story begins. Rose has worked out there is a strong possibility that her donor is one of two brothers who run a boat-building business. She finds a tiny flat over the top of a shop right in the centre of the village, with fantastic views of the boatyard and the sea. She settles into Cornish life, getting involved in village life and working at the dig, and getting to know the brothers, Finn and Joey. She is drawn to Finn, but he remains quite distant, whereas Joey is much more friendly and outgoing. Rose realises though that he will only ever be a friend.

There are a lot of twists and turns until the truth is revealed. Will it make any difference to their friendship? It seems it might, until there is the opportunity for a heart to heart conversation. But be ready for several happy endings! Well worth reading.

*3.5
This book is definitely a summer must-read. It definitely started out a bit too slow for my taste. However, I am so happy I stayed with it. I adored the quaint village setting, sitting on the water. And I adored the characters we followed. Especially considering I've been loging in a concerning amount of hours on stardew valley this book gave me exactly what it needed to give.

At first, I wasn't sure if I would be able to read this book. It started out a tad slow, for my taste. However, I am so glad that I stayed with it. I really enjoyed the story and all of the characters, especially Oriel. I also adored the quaint village setting, sitting on the water. I could clearly picture the beautiful atmosphere in my head. I definitely wasn't disappointed.

This book was wonderful and I read it in one day. Such an unusual plot and I loved that the central character was an archaeologist which isn’t the usual career choice in this category of book. The characters were endearing, the storyline was engaging and I just couldn’t put the book down. I will definitely be looking to read more from this author now. Thanks netgalley

Good summer read, set in Cornwall. Interesting characters and plot and good descriptions of the area the book is set in. I would recommend this for a bit of summery escapism!

This is a fabulous summer read. I escaped back to the seaside and loved the characters I met there. Rose has a secret which we know almost from the beginning but the villagers she meets do not. You feel such sympathy for her as she has to come to terms with bereavement and serious health issues. The two brothers are a good contrast to each other and you are kept on your toes as to the outcome and what Rose will decide.

With a gorgeous setting and a lovely Cornish community, you are lifted into Rose's world. Highly recommended. Thanks to the publisher for a copy of the book

Complementary copy given for my honest review and opinion. Great romance that was fun and memorable with good character building.

Philippa Ashley takes me back to Cornwall, I love it so much, I can feel the sand in my toes and breeze in my hair as I read. Philippa always brings just the perfect romance , with fun, humour a bit of drama and misunderstandings and then our happy wistful ending that delights us all. I loved Rose and you root for her every page of her journey and Philippa’s writing style is what’s so good about her books, she makes characters you want to fall in love with and be friends with. Just perfect

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

Another lovely heartwarming book by this author. Rose is a great main character and I love her quest of trying to find the bone marrow donor who saved her life... but which of the Morvah brothers is it Joey or Finn and will they forgive her her deception of getting to know them without telling them her secret? The great setting and romance makes this a definite for the beach this year.

A lovely introduction to this little corner of Cornwall. This is exactly the romance you expect with the predictable misunderstandings and final ending we romance readers want to sigh over. What is so great is the way it is written. You really want to go on Rose’s journey with her and not stop until the final page is read.

The back story to the book was different to the majority of stories around right now. I love the setting in Cornwall, and the characters and I hope there are more in the series to follow.