Lots of secrets, lots of drama, new beginnings, family history, learning to find yourself and who you are again. A well written book, with great characters and a really good storyline.

I loved this story because the setting of Shelly in Exmouth was familiar to me in 1970s. In the late 1980s the leases on the land most of these seaside holiday homes were built on expired, and there was wholesale redevelopment of the area. Melody has lived there all her life and feels the potential loss of her home very keenly. There is much about loss of different kinds in this novel and the different ways people find to deal with it. Melody also discovers that her family is not quite as she thought it was and has to come to terms with this too. However this is a truly heartwarming novel that I thoroughly enjoyed reading