Book Cover: The Beach Hut by Veronica Henry
Veronica Henry’s next offering Starstruck is due out in September but if you can’t wait that long, Veronica will have out a short story collection called The Beach Hut on 22nd July 2010. I think it sounds fantastic and I adore the simplistic cover. Veronica Henry is not the first author to offer up a short story collection: Irish author Sheila O’Flanagan has published two fab short story offerings Destinations & Connection. Here is the synopsis for The Beach Hut:
‘FOR SALE: a rare opportunity to purchase a beach hut on the spectacular Everdene Beach, Dorset. “The Shack” has been in the family for fifty years, and was the first to be built on this renowned stretch of golden sand…’ Jane Milton doesn’t want to sell her beloved beach hut, which has been the heart of so many family holidays and holds so many happy memories. But when her husband dies, leaving her with an overwhelming string of debts, she has no choice but to sell. THE BEACH HUT follows the stories of the people who own the beach huts, families who come to Everdene each year, people who fall in - or out of - love, remembering their pasts, or trying to forget them… Veronica Henry has brilliantly drawn together the comings and goings of life at the beach huts over one long, hot, lazy summer…
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October 14th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
I love this book, this is the best summer read of all time for me.
Veronica Henry has opened the door and let you in to a family’s life spanning 50 years.
I felt like I lived with this family, I felt like I knew Jane intimately, I felt sick and sad when the Beach Hut went up for sale and I found my self crossing everything that the hut would be taken off the market and I was absolutely devastated when I read it wasn’t going to be.
Her narrative description is excellent, she reels you in very quickly and before you know it you are anxious to get back to the story, to find out what happens next.
Quite simply I did not want this book to end…I wanted it to keep going. It will always be in my memory of the best holiday read ever, so much so that it will never leave my bookcase.