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Sunrise by the Sea
Sunrise by the Sea: A LIttle Beach Street Bakery Novel | Jenny Colgan
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New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the setting of her beloved Little Beach Street Bakery series for a timely and heartfelt novel set in a Cornish seaside village. Marisa Rosso cant understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses grandparents, right? Why is she taking it so badly? Retreating further and further from normal life, she moves to the end of the earththe remote tidal island of Mount Polbearne, at the foot of Cornwall, hoping for peace and solitude, whilst carrying on her job as a registrar, dealing with births, weddings, and deaths, even as she feels life is passing her by. Unfortunatelyor fortunately?the solitude she craves proves elusive. Between her noisy Russian piano-teaching neighbor, the bustle and community spirit of the tiny village struggling back to life after the quarantine, and the pressing need to help save the local bakery, can Marisa find her joy again at the end of the world?
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Born.A.Reader
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful cover! 6mo
Eggs Excellent 🌊 6mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
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And this is where time does that really strange thing -
I read that line and thought 'oh you sassy youngin' it's not *that* old' 🙄 I remember going to the movies to see it like it was yesterday. . . . Then I checked the release date; 1988 😲 WTF?! It is really old 🙇🏻‍♀️😂😂🤦🏻‍♀️

Balibee146 The seventies was 30 years ago right?.... No wait, that was the nineties! 😳😳😬 12mo
Karisimo I watched it this Halloween for the first time! I was just young enough to miss it when it came out! 12mo
CSeydel 😵 12mo
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CSeydel Reminds me of Captain America Civil War, when Peter Parker asks, “ok have you guys heard of that really old movie the Empire Strikes Back” 🙃 12mo
CSeydel Speaking of which, I just saw this on another social media post: “Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow are now the right age to play the three younger characters (Blanche, Rose, & Dorothy) on ‘The Golden Girls‘ if they remade it today.” (edited) 12mo
TheBookgeekFrau @CSeydel NO! 👵🏼🙇🏻‍♀️🤣 12mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
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Mehso-so

The story was a nice, cozy, light-hearted, chuckle to yourself read. BUT the editing so damn bad that entire paragraphs didn't make sense. Not to mention the typos and bad grammar 😣 Even the blurb on the back was wrong--the story had nothing to do with a quarantine 🙄🙄

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TheBookgeekFrau
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"The sun had been out earlier that day, and the family had all gone out to play."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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TheBookgeekFrau
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Need a light, easy to sip at type of read since Saturday starts our week with my granddaughter.

bthegood Enjoy your time with your granddaughter - 🙂 13mo
bookandbedandtea It's hard to find reading time with grandbabies around. 😉 Enjoy your time with her! 13mo
TheBookgeekFrau @bthegood @bookandbedandtea Thanks guys, I will!! With my daughter getting divorced and back in the nest we have the little nugget every other week, so 'heavy' reading needs to be planned now 😂 13mo
bookandbedandtea @TheBookgeekFrau I hear you! Our son and grandson moved back in with us several years ago, which has been a joy but also a lot of work. 13mo
TheBookgeekFrau @bookandbedandtea A. Lot. Of. Work!! 😂 Honestly though, I enjoy having them here. I just wish my husband would've trusted in my forethought when we moved out here and agreed to a slightly bigger house. 13mo
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Birdsong28
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Twelfth prompt completed for @melissajayne #readyourTBR challenge.
#2023challenge

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Birdsong28
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Good. Enjoyed getting back into the lives of these characters as it's a continuation of The Beach Street Bakery series. Shows how grief affects people differently and how we deal with it. Full of hope and romance.

#Sphere

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Just what I needed after a rough week, some time with some Beach Street Bakery friends from past books (Polly and Neil) whilst introducing us to Marisa a young lady who escapes to the Island as a way of coping with her Agoraphobia now that her beloved Grandfather has died. Her rowdy neighbour is starting a new life after the demise of his relationship in his home country. A story of love, loss, rebuilding, overcoming and reconnecting. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Colgan's latest returns to the charming Cornish seaside village...You can't put a timeline on grief. Marisa Rosso is stricken with fear and agoraphobia during quarantine trying to deal with her grief. She retreats to Mount Polbearne in hopes of solace and recovery. But quiet and seclusion eludes her when moving next door to a man who teaches piano and composes at night. Her Italian Nonna is the key to recovery and who knows maybe even ♥️

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Oh my God, NOTHING makes me happier than being back in Mount Polbearne and catching up with my main man Neil the Puffin. But also what a beautiful story of healing after grief. 🧡 #contemporaryfiction