Kelly Park

A 20th-century romantic saga set in Cornwall! Perfect for fans of Liz Fenwick, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Fern Britton and Phillipa Ashley. Can Cornish dreams come true?Cornwall, 1978Leaving London, a French bistro and an unfaithful lover behind, chef Flavia Pollard moves to Cornwall in search of new beginnings.

Her friend Humphrey Jarvis owns the dilapidated estate of Parc Celli, known as Kelly Park, and he commissions Flavia to reinvent it as a country house hotel.

It seems like a dream come true. But dreams are never that simple.

With mounting costs, a looming deadline and a string of uninvited visitors, including roguish Tom Faull and the dapper Jack Rice, Flavia unexpectedly finds herself falling in love...

Can Flavia win over the locals and restore Kelly Park to its former glory? Has she found someone to mend her broken heart?

And could Cornwall become the place she can call home?

Kelly Park is a beautifully evocative historical British romance with an independent and ambitious heroine, set in wild and windy Cornwall during the 1970s.

'Jean Stubbs writes with relish, irony, a sense of fun and a beguiling realism' - Sunday Times

'a well-orchestrated mix of complex personalities and lush countryside locale linked by ingenious plotting' - Publishers Weekly

'An accomplished writer' - Kirkus Reviews