‘Welcome To Ferry Lane Market’ by Nicola May is the first in a new series from an author I have to say that I have never read anything from before. I am really happy I joined this tour as I enjoyed every page of this rom-com.
Although thirty-three-year-old Kara Moon loves her hometown of Hartmouth in Cornwall, she has always wondered if she should have followed her dream of going off to study floristry. But she couldn’t bring herself to abandon her emotionally delicate single father and has worked on Ferry Lane Market’s flower stall ever since leaving school. When her good-for-nothing boyfriend cheats on her and steals her life savings, she finally dumps him and rents out her spare room as an Airbnb. Gossip flies around the town as Kara welcomes a series of foreign guests to her flat overlooking the estuary. Then an anonymous postcard arrives, along with a plane ticket to New York. And there begins the first of three trips of a lifetime, during which she will learn important lessons about herself, her life and what she wants from it – and perhaps find love along the way.
I found myself wrapped up in the warmth of this story and found myself wishing I could experience the type of community that Kara has in the story. An old fashioned community who are still very much dependable and there if needed. It really reminded me of when I was a child and the community spirit then. The sense of place within this book is second to none. Ferry Lane Market took a vivid form in my mind and it was somewhere I would love to be!
Nicola May’s characters are all almost popping out the pages. Kara is one of those characters you just connect with immediately. Her boyfriend, Jago, is a man who has just used her for the eight years since he has lived with her. She finally decides she has had enough of being the doormat and off Jago pops! NOW it is time for her to live her life how she wishes.
Kara turns her spare room into an Airbnb and this is the beginning of her new chapter in life, one that sees her meeting new people and jetting off abroad.
A book that is humorous as well as touching too. Family, love and relationships are some of the themes, along with finding your own path. I will be looking for the next book in this series as well as this author’s other books as I have loved my time in Ferry Lane Market.
Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and Hodder & Stoughton for the copy of this marvellous book.
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