Lead Review

  • Book: A Cottage by the Sea
  • Location: Pembrokeshire
  • Author: Carole Matthews

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Content

A Cottage by the Sea by Carole Matthews is a novel that bowls along as though carried on a warm wind off the Atlantic Coast (yes, it can be warm in Wales), set in Pembrokeshire.

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Friends Grace and Flick bring their partners for a week’s holiday at Cwtch Cottage (prounounced Cutch Cottage), where they join Art and their third friend in the group, Ella, who owns the cottage. Set right on the coast, it is in an idyllic location and, as Grace remarks “this has to be one of the loveliest places on the whole earth: miles of golden sand…..”.

Atmospheric log fires, brisk walks in thunderous downpours, hot chocolate, coves and caves, bays and beaches, rolling sea and Welsh seaside villages all form a beautiful backdrop to the narrative and the couple interactions. And all’s well that ends well between the six characters (not giving anything away here, as we know that Carole tends towards the feel good factor!!)

The Pembrokeshire Tourist Board should be well pleased with the beautiful evocation of this part of the country. As Grace comments: “The delights of Pembrokeshire seem to be overlooked in favour of Devon or Cormwall. Or Corfu”.

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