Finding Love at Mermaid Terrace
by Kate Forster

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Love comes when you least expect it…

Tressa Buckland likes her quiet life in Port Lowdy, with its cobbled streets and colorful terraced houses overlooking the sea. Her job at the local paper allows her to pursue her art in her free time, with no one but her tabby cat Ginger Pickles to mind her in Mermaid Terrace. But then the owner of the paper is called away on an emergency, and it’s up to Tressa to run the paper for six months. Her first task: find a new part-time journalist.

Dan Byrne is the angriest man in Ireland – or so the readers of his very successful column, ‘Dan takes on the world’, think. But after a story goes south and he loses his job in Dublin, Dan has no choice but to start afresh. When an opportunity comes up in sleepy Cornwall, Dan and his Golden Retriever Ritchie set off for a new adventure.

For Tressa, Dan’s arrival to Port Lowdy changes everything. Tressa tries not to look too deeply at her own life, but Dan sees a story to uncover in absolutely everyone – even her. The two of them couldn’t be more different… yet, if they can find a way to work together, they may just breathe new life and joy into this sleepy seaside village.

Finding Love at Mermaid Terrace is a heartwarming new village romance about the power of love and kindness, from the bestselling author of Starting Over at Acorn Cottage.

My Rating:

Favorite Quotes:

She had a voice like sandpaper and an accent that could have shucked an oyster but her eyes were kind and she smiled at him like she meant it.

He’s very handsome… Even a nun would have a little squirm if she was sitting opposite that man.

‘I could sue you.’ ‘Get in line,’ he said. ‘But be warned all I have is my shitty Subaru and Ritchie, and both of them have dodgy exhausts, quite smelly with the wrong fuel.’

She wants to be home and she’s moping around here like an egg with no yolk.

I missed the smell of the sea… Mum’s house smells like potpourri and disappointment in me.

My Review:

This was a fun and cleverly amusing and enticing read packed with oddly compelling, complex, and endearingly quirky characters. I was fully consumed from start to finish and reveled in the deft author’s agile and wry levity, insightful observations, and thoughtful and perceptive narrative. Ms. Forster’s writing hit all the feels and was slyly emotive and absorbing. My attention and interest never lagged, as the various storylines were equally engaging whether humorous, angsty, or heart squeezing. She has mad skills.

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I live in Melbourne, Australia with my husband, two children, and dogs and I can be found nursing a laptop, surrounded by magazines, and talking on the phone, usually all at once. I am an avid follower of fashion, fame and all things pop culture and I am also an excellent dinner party guest who always brings gossip and champagne.