Bücher der Reihe Coming Back to Cornwall

Is it possible to relive the best time of your life? As they approach their thirties, Alice and Julie are determined to find out.Still recovering from a toxic relationship, Alice realises she has allowed life to become too predictable, while Julie has just ended things with the man she was due to marry. The two friends decide to throw caution to the wind; coming back to Cornwall, where they spent a long, happy summer ten years before. As they return to the same small flat in the centre of town, and seasonal jobs at the Sail Loft Hotel, Alice harbours hopes of finding Sam, the love of her life, while Julie is determined to enjoy the freedom she's been missing.A lot can change in ten years, though, as their friend Luke - now a handsome, successful businessman - proves. Back in Cornwall himself, as his mum is seriously ill, he and Julie grow close. Alice is worried that her friend is making a huge mistake and, all-but-abandoned, starts to spend time with single mum Casey.Sam, meanwhile, proves elusive but slowly reveals that, although he appears not to have changed at all, the previous decade has been eventful for him, too.

Two years into her new life in Cornwall, and while Alice Griffiths' own romantic hopes have been dashed, it appears that whichever way she looks, her friends are getting hitched. A handsome stranger at Bea's wedding could well change Alice's fortunes but she may be better off ploughing her energies into her working life.While each season brings a new wedding, the months leading up to Christmas, and David and Martin's big day, become about taking risks for Alice. Should she leave the safety of the Sail Loft Hotel? Is starting a business the best idea she and Julie have ever had, or the end of a beautiful friendship? And should she push Sam Branvall out of her mind for good and take a chance on handsome, successful Paul Winters?From upsetting her manager at the Sail Loft, to Sam moving back to town; not to mention a phone call announcing her mother has been taken seriously ill, it's going to take a cool head to navigate successfully through this year. Luckily, Alice has her friends to support her. Even if they are all getting married.If she can just keep her cool, and keep her friends, then she should make it safely through to those cold winter nights and twinkling Christmas lights.

It's tough, being a grown-up. Alice has never appreciated that as much as she does now.When a friend's parent dies, and with her own parents experiencing health issues, Alice is beginning to understand the meaning of the term 'sandwich generation', and even more so when one of her children becomes ill. With a business to manage, and rapidly increasing bills, the last thing she needs is her best friend and business partner Julie throwing a spanner in the works. When Lydia's relationship with the famous actor Si Davey comes under strain, Alice is glad for the chance to help her, and focus on somebody else's problems for once.Nevertheless, suffering from sleep deprivation and stress, Alice finds herself challenging other relationships in her life, looking for somebody to provide the answers and support that she needs. Does she have the strength and resilience to find her way through these troubling times? And is it possible to salvage her friendship with Julie before it's too late?Shifting Sands is the final book of the Coming Back to Cornwall series, and a chance to see how far life has come for Alice, Julie and the important people in their lives. It is also a reminder that there is no such thing as a happy ending - merely happy moments, which inevitably will be followed by other moments: happy, sad, stressful, relaxing... life goes on, and the sands never stop shifting beneath our feet.