Lucy’s Great Escape by Rosie Green

Lucy never wanted to abandon her friends and family, and travel to the other side of the country to start a new life. And all without telling anyone where she was going. But these are desperate times. And finding herself with a nightmare of a dilemma, fleeing her home town seems like the only way she can protect herself and those she loves.

The Cornish town of Pengully Sands holds happy childhood memories for Lucy and seems the perfect place to escape to, although having little money and no friends, life at first seems grim.

Author: Rosie Green

Genre: Chic Lit

Tag: Cornwall

Series: Little Duck Pond Cafe

Published: July 7th 2020

Page Count: 202

Category: Read in 2021

This book is filled with so many interesting characters and can easily be read as a standalone. The focus is on Lucy. We already met her briefly in the 10th book and her background story is revealed. Loving the series.

But a chance meeting with Madison and the rest of the Little Duck Pond Cafe girls, plus a decidedly attractive local guy who won’t take no for an answer, gives Lucy a glimmer of hope for the future. Could she really settle in Pengully Sands and make a living by selling her watercolours in the little seaside town?

But just as life is starting to look rosier, it becomes clear that someone back home – the last person she ever wanted to see – has tracked her down…