Find Me at Willoughby Close

Kate Hewitt

Mar 2017 · Tule Publishing

About this ebook

Welcome to Willoughby Close… a charming cluster of cozy cottages, each with a story to tell and a happy ending to deliver… Harriet Lang had the perfect life, so she's left reeling when everything is taken from her in one fell swoop. Suddenly, Harriet learns her beautiful farmhouse in the Cotswolds is double-mortgaged, her husband Richard’s been unceremoniously fired—and he’s become a little too close to his young, sexy assistant.
Harriet moves into Willoughby Close with her three children, trying to hold her head up high. With the help of her neighbor and newfound friend Ellie Matthews, Harriet starts to rebuild her life--but dipping a toe in the dating pool feels strange and meanwhile her children are struggling in different ways. She wonders if starting over is really possible...
Then Willoughby Close begins to weave its healing magic on both her and her children, and Harriet begins to see a way forward. But when Richard reappears in her life, wanting to make amends, Harriet must make the painful decision about how much of the past can be forgiven—and what kind of future she is fighting for.

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT WILLOUGHBY CLOSE:
‘Utterly charming…’
‘When you find a book that gives you a feel good snuggly I-want-to-know-what happens-next story feeling...One you don't want to put down, and one you think you'd love to be a fly on the wall in, you know it's a winner. This is one of those books.’
‘Loved it… I didn’t want their story to end.’
‘I devoured it in one sitting.’
‘A sweet story that left me with a smile.’
‘Cheery and heartwarming.’

Ratings and reviews

Harriet Lang was the uber-yummy mummy in the second book, mother to the mean girl who has made Abby's new life in the Cotswolds that little bit more difficult. In the second book Harriet and her three children had arrived to occupy the second cottage in Willoughby Close under fairly mysterious circumstances, in this book we find out why. Harriet has enjoyed the finer things in life as a result of her husband Richard's job as an investment manager in London: a big house; fancy holidays; ponies for the children; interior decorator to furnish the house; and spending money like water on catered birthday parties for her youngest. Then her world comes crashing down when she discovers her husband has been having secret conversations with his assistant in the early hours of the morning (like 2am) for hours at a time. When she confronts him he lets slip the devastating news that he was sacked six months earlier and that they are so far in debt that they could lose the house! This is like a grown-up version of the book A Little Princess which has been made into umpteen films over the years (umpteen being a word to describe that I'm too lazy to stop typing and do a rudimentary google search). Harriet loses all of her possessions, all her status as one of the yummy mummies and discovers how fake and shallow she had become, buying things to keep up with the other mums instead of because she liked them or needed them. But in the back of her mind Harriet believes living at Willoughby Close is only temporary, until Richard gets another highly paid job, of course she thinks she will be a better, kinder, more thoughtful person, but living in a big country house once more, until one day she realises that maybe that's not what she wants at all.

Find me at Willoughby Close, another great addition to the Willoughby Close romance series. I really enjoy this whole series. Each of the stories at me smiling from the beginning with it's great characters and dialogue. I'm looking forward to reading more by this author.