Applemere Summer

by Harriet Hudson

A heart-warming story about an innovative idea to save one family's business What more could she want? Jennie Pencarek is living next to her beloved Applemere House with her bookseller husband Richard and their children. But Jennie's life is turned upside down when she hears that Pencarek Books is in trouble. Bankruptcy looms until Jennie has a brilliant new idea ? a steam-powered travelling bookshop bus, which ploughs its way down the Kentish lanes to bring romance, mystery and the classics to people's doorsteps.

Genres: Historical Fiction

232 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

A pseudonym used by Amy Myers

Reviews

[Julia Ibbotson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this as a holiday read, not very demanding and rather a slow burner. But I loved the evocation of the English country garden and community. It may have been advisable to have read the first in the series!

[Bronwyn Rykiert · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was nowhere near as good a read as I hoped for but it was okay.

Jennie Pencarek is shocked when she finds out that the book store that her husband Richard runs is in financial trouble, to get back on track she has an idea to take the book store to the people by way of a steam powered bus and it works.

Richard and Jennie are told that they must leave their beloved Applemere Cottage. They go to live in a nearby town in a Dowager House. Tradegy stikes and Jennie is left to bring up her twins alone. She has two brothers she loves dearly but the brothers themselves do not get along because they both loved the same girl Anna.

There are a couple of stories here.