Welcome back! I’m on the tour for Escape To Bellbird Bay by Maggie Christensen. Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and the author for the gifted ebook to take part.
Escape to Bellbird Bay: A heartwarming story of second chances
When successful university lecturer Alison Wells’ life unexpectedly falls apart, she follows in her brother’s footsteps and escapes to the coastal town of Bellbird Bay on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
Neil Simpson loves teaching and his position as principal at a prestigious boys’ school in Brisbane. But when scandal rocks the school, and he learns his father’s health is failing, he has no choice but to return to his hometown of Bellbird Bay.
Determined not to be a burden to her brother and his new partner, Ali is considering her options when her world and Neil’s collide. Having avoided commitment all her life, Ali is unprepared for the force of her attraction to the man who is trying to come to terms with the upheaval in his own life.
As fate conspires to keep them apart, can this small town work its magic on these two lost souls?
The sixth book in the Bellbird Bay series from Maggie Christensen. It can be read as a standalone, too. I myself have read half of the series and do enjoy returning to Bellbird Bay and rejoining old characters and new ones, too.
It is a contemporary fiction series that always gives me that feel-good feeling, no matter which book I read. Maggie Christensen writes stories that feature more mature couples finding love.
This book tells the story of Ali Wells and Neil Simpson. Alli is a character that was in a previous book. Neil grew up in Bellbird Bay, and his dad owns the bookshop. He is divorced, with a twenty year old daughter. After a scandal hits his school, he is told to take time out. He returns to Bellbird Bay with his daughter and is shocked that his dad’s health has declined as much as it has.
Ali has found herself in Bellbird Bay after the course she is lecturer for at university, is pulled from the curriculum. Both of them are in Bellbird Bay, with no concrete way forward and no real romantic plans, but sometimes no plans are needed. Especially in this place.
Maggie Christensen writes with such emotion coming through the story that it’s hard not to feel connected to the characters in Bellbird Bay. I loved returning to this magical place that has a community that you feel the warmth of and has a tendency to help characters gain a second, or even third chance at love!
Purchase Links
UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/Escape-Bellbird-Bay-heartwarming-chances-ebook/dp/B0BN9HQD8F
US https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Bellbird-Bay-heartwarming-chances-ebook/dp/B0BN9HQD8F
Author Bio
After a career in education, Maggie Christensen began writing contemporary women’s fiction portraying mature women facing life-changing situations, and historical fiction set in her native Scotland. Her travels inspire her writing, be it her trips to visit family in Scotland, in Oregon, USA or her home on Queensland’s beautiful Sunshine Coast. Maggie writes of mature heroines coming to terms with changes in their lives and the heroes worthy of them. Maggie has been called the queen of mature age fiction and her writing has been described by one reviewer as like a nice warm cup of tea. It is warm, nourishing, comforting and embracing.
From the small town in Scotland where she grew up, Maggie was lured to Australia by the call to ‘Come and teach in the sun’. Once there, she worked as a primary school teacher, university lecturer and in educational management. Now living with her husband of over thirty years on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, she loves walking on the deserted beach in the early mornings and having coffee by the river on weekends. Her days are spent surrounded by books, either reading or writing them – her idea of heaven!
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