The Songbird Av Marcia Willett

<p><b>Can new hopes bloom when summer begins again? </b><br><br>When Mattie invites her old friend Tim to stay in one of her family cottages on the edge of Dartmoor, she senses there is something he is not telling her. <br><br>But as he gets to know the rest of the warm jumble of family by the moor, <b>Tim</b> begins to relax again and he discovers that everyone there has their own secrets. There is <b>Kat</b>, a retired ballet dancer who longs for the stage again; <b>Charlotte</b>, a young navy wife struggling to bring up her son while her husband is at sea; <b>William</b>, who guards a dark past he cannot share with the others; and <b>Mattie</b> . . . who has loved Tim in silence for years.<br><br>As Tim begins to open up, Mattie falls deeper in love. And as summer warms the wild Dartmoor landscape, new hopes begin to bloom . . .<br><br><i>If you like books by Lucy Diamond, Trisha Ashley and Carole Matthews, you''ll love Marcia Willett''s gloriously warm novels set in the West Country.</i></p>