I loved 'A Cornish Christmas' by this author and this book is even better. So lovely and heartwarming and full of characters you want to be your friends. The descriptions are beautiful and I was transported. A beautiful book to escape with, full of heart. Loved it.

4.5 stars. My anguished howl of “nooooo” as I finished The Cornish Escape, by Lily Graham, was so loud I had to go and check I hadn’t woken my three-year-old who was sleeping in the next room.I simply couldn’t help it – it wasn’t that I didn’t like the ending so much as I wanted the book to carry on and on and on.The description on the front cover “A beautiful summer romance to warm your heart” really doesn’t do it justice because it’s so much more than that.For a start it’s two romances, albeit...

An old cottage with hidden family secrets and a newly discovered diary containing the details of star crossed lovers - sign me up!This story starts a bit slow, but evolves into a dual timeline set of two love stories. We have Victoria, a successful biographer, who is going through some life-changing events and stumbles upon a seaside cottage which steals her heart. After she discovers a diary written in code, the story of its past unfolds. I certainly enjoyed the story, the past more than the pr...

All of my reviews can be found on www.novelgossip.comAhh that stunning cover! Makes me want to jump right in, I keep reading these lovely books set in these stunning places and it has me longing desperately for a vacation! Though this is billed as a romance I was pleasantly surprised by the added bonus of a historical mystery and you all know how much I love a good mystery. Victoria has just been betrayed in the worst way by her husband of almost ten years, he’s cheated on her with a younger wom...

Victoria travels to Cornwall to get over her broken heart. She and her husband have grown apart and he's hurt her badly, so it's time for her to make a fresh start. When Victoria sees the dilapidated Seafall Cottage she feels drawn to it straight away. In the cottage Victoria finds a diary and the story inside makes her curious. The writer, Tilly, went through something devastating and Victoria wants to find out more about the history of the cottage and the life of the woman whose diary she's so...

This was utterly fantastic, I just could not put it down. It had me gripped from the very start. I loved the mystery of Seafall Cottage and finding out the real story that belonged to it.I really enjoyed reading the bits from Tillys diary and going back in time. I think this was done perfectly and not to confusing.The character of Victoria is very admirable, the way shes had the heartbreak in her life and how she is so strong and moves on with her life and how she takes a risk and buys and saves...

This book was my first by Lily Graham and was completely different from what I thought it would be, in the best possible way. I was expecting a light and fluffy beach romance but, while there are in fact two romances, what really captivated me was the mystery. There's something very haunting about it in places and I loved the authors writing style. It also somehow convinced me that I absolutely must run away to Cornwall. The Cornish Escape is really two stories in one. The first follows Victoria...

4.5 stars...I really loved this book! I was thinking it was a fluffy romance, but it was so much more than I was expecting! Nothing fluffy here. I was pulled into the story of Victoria from the first chapter and loved the second storyline revolving around Tilly from the early 1900s as well. In Victoria we find a woman reeling from things she has discovered about her husband and trying to make sense of what her life will be like in the future without him. She escapes to beautiful Cornwall and fin...

**RATING - IF I COULD GIVE IT MORE THAN 5STARS I WOULD!!**There are not enough words in the world to describe how much I love this book!! I sat down after the kids went to bed and told myself that I would read for an hour, and three hours later I was in the same position, completely engrossed in Victoria and Tilly's world, and I knew I wouldn't sleep until I reached the end. In this engaging, emotional story we meet Victoria, a successful biographer, as she faces the fact that her marriage is ov...

I love Lily Graham's books. This story was no exception. I was quickly drawn in the book and loved the two stories jumping eras between Victoria in the modern day and Tilly in the early 1900's through the stories Victoria was deciphering from an old diary found at Seafall Cottage.As I had first read about Victoria in A Cornish Christmas so I thought I'd be more drawn to her sections of the story but actually Lily's unique style of writing sucked me back into the historical tales of Tilly written...

This was a lovely story and I enjoyed every page of it. I have read other books by this author, and this one is written with the same attention to detail and with unexpected layers as the others I have read. Victoria is a woman in crisis, her husband has been cheating on her and she flees to Cornwall. She ends up living on a houseboat and restoring a cottage with an interesting history. I loved the description of the houseboat and the others who also lived on the boats nearby, it sounded like su...

This book was sure to be a great read for me- set in Cornwall and a cottage set in the cliffs overlooking its own cove with a mystery thrown in.Victoria escapes her life in London with her husband when he announces that he loves someone else. She falls in love with a ramshackle cottage that has been deserted for over 30 years and has to save it once she hears that they want to pull it down.She soon settles into the coastal life- staying on a gorgeous sounding barge whilst her cottage undergoes a...

Victoria is having a really bad day: her husband is having an affair with a younger woman, and she just needs to get away. Dashing off to Tregollan, a seaside village in Cornwall, where she hopes the isolation, sea air and gorgeous views will help her to heal and decide on her next move. I could instantly relate to Victoria’s running for the coast – it’s a wonderful place to think and regroup, but on one of her many wanders around the area she comes upon a run-down cottage. Even more surprising