Author: christinajones

The full-length sunny follow-up to the snowy short story, Christmas at Sandcastle Cottage. It’s a glorious summer in Firefly Common, the old-fashioned seaside village where Kitty Appleby (almost forty, recently-single, a bit of a Julia Roberts look-alike) and her friends, Apollo and Jemini, rent the delightful Sandcastle Cottage. But life is far from being all sunshine and lollipops as Kitty’s … all sunshine and lollipops as Kitty’s elderly neighbours, the kindly but overbearing Mr H and his wife, keep reminding her, very soon Mavis Mulholland – the owner of Sandcastle Cottage – will return from her lottery-winning round-the-world-cruise, and will…