When aromatherapist Sukie Ambrose starts using her cottage garden as inspiration - and raw ingredients - for her products, she thinks she's just hit on a good way of saving money while offering her clients a way of de-stressing and relaxation. However, Sukie lives in a village where strange things have been known to happen... She discovers that her new improved lotions and potions are making her massages distinctly magical - and producing more star-crossed lovers than Shakespeare could ever dream of...
H.E. Bates for the 21st Century - (Katie Fforde)
sexy...unputdownable...a heart-thumping read - (Company)
feisty tale of friendship and laughter, loyalty and love...engaging - (The Times)
must read...fun-packed tale - (The Sun)
Christina Jones, the only child of a schoolteacher and a circus clown, has been writing all her life (as well as having millions of Proper Jobs) and has never stopped. She is the adored and award-winning author of 27 hilarious, heartwarming romantic comedy novels, including Going the Distance (winner of the WH Smith Fresh Talent award), Nothing to Lose (runner-up for the WH Smith Thumping Good Read award) and An Enormously English Monsoon Wedding (winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association's Reviewer's Choice Award).
As well as writing funny, feel-good novels, she has also published several short stories and collections, including the brand-new festive e-short, Christmas at Sandcastle Cottage. Her latest full-length novel, the dazzlingly delightful Summer at Sandcastle Cottage, was released in summer 2021, and she is currently working on something for next summer, too...
After years of travelling, she now lives in rural Oxfordshire with her husband and four rescue cats: Dylan, Dexter, Grace and Miss Bea.