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| Neil!!! |
February 2015, Sphere, 448 pages, Ebook, Review copy & Personal copy
Content: baking, moderate romance, grief, humour
Summary from Ebooks by Sainsbury's
Summer has arrived in the Cornish town of Mount Polbearne and Polly
Waterford couldn't be happier. Because Polly is in love: she's in love
with the beautiful seaside town she calls home, she's in love with
running the bakery on Beach Street, and she's in love with her
boyfriend, Huckle.
And yet there's something unsettling about the gentle summer breeze
that's floating through town. Selina, recently widowed, hopes that
moving to Mount Polbearne will ease her grief, but Polly has a secret
that could destroy her friend's fragile recovery. Responsibilities that
Huckle thought he'd left behind are back and Polly finds it hard to cope
with his increasingly long periods of absence.
Polly sifts flour, kneads dough and bakes bread, but nothing can calm
the storm she knows is coming: is Polly about to lose everything she
loves?
Nayu's thoughts
Jenny
has woven her magic in yet another book filled with rollercoaster of
emotions, bread and Neil the puffling. I wanted to have a go at Jenny
for the intensity of the emotions Polly goes through. The stakes seem
even higher in this second book, with heartache at every turn in the
later chapters. I was stunned by the various plot twists, and didn't
know how the book could end happily. It does, with a bittersweet
ending which made me cry and laugh at the same time.
Polly
gets to bake...although there are a lot of obstacles which battles
hard against, after a small pity party which is understandable. Her
old friends are still with her, and she makes new ones, as well as a
loathesome toad of a man as her nemesis who continually destroyed
Polly's life for a while. There was a period of time when Huck was an
utter moron, not seeing what Polly needed, so wasn't entirely
bothered what happened to him but since I love Polly I guess I wanted
him to be ok too. There's some laughter to be had, sometimes
accompanied by tear as I read the mess Polly's life becomes. Karenza
is on top form even when she's hit by tragedy too. I liked the
different view of a eventful few hours near the end, since in the
first book a different side of the story was examined. I really can't
say much more without spoiling the story, it's a gem of a read the
first time round, and it's also fun to listen to.
I received this
book from Sainsbury's ebooks for review...that was after I'd
forgotten I'd pre-ordered it to my Kindle (so it popped up on
publication day), and also after I bought the audiobook version,
which I dipped in and out of too. You can never have too many copies of Jenny's books! Polly and Neil's tale is a comfort
read of mine, one which I hope will have another book, but if it
doesn't I'm content with the two.
Suggested Read
Also recently released is Jenny's first children's book which happens to be an alternate story about Polly and Neil! Polly and the Puffin (Children's, 5 years +, 10E/10E)
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