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Home To Turtle Bay

Marion Lennox

Start date: November 1, 2020

Finish date: November 30, 2020

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Jan 04, 2019 Brenda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: arc, 2018-release, own-read, aussie-authors, sent-by-publisher, reviewing-by-request, contemporary-fiction

When highly respected Manhattan obstetrician Dr Jennifer Kelly learned that she had inherited property on a small Australian island called Nautilus she was stunned. She’d never heard of the grandfather who’d left her a dairy farm, among other things. She decided to take two weeks leave, fly to the island and put everything up for sale. Her fiancé Richard couldn’t accompany her, but the woman who’d raised her, grandmother Muriel, decided she would go with Jennifer.

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Jan 17, 2019 Helen rated it it was amazing

This was a book that I didn’t want to put down, but life got in the way so many times, but then it was easy to pick back up and fall into the lives of the people living at Turtle Bay on Nautilus Island, there were so many laugh out loud moments, but there were moments when emotions were making Dr Jennifer Kelly re-think her life, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I am sure anyone who picks it up will as well, come and join everyone at Turtle Bay.

Dr Jennifer Kelly is an obstetrician in Manhattan This was a book that I didn’t want to put down, but life got in the way so many times, but then it was easy to pick back up and fall into the lives of the people living at Turtle Bay on Nautilus Island, there were so many laugh out loud moments, but there were moments when emotions were making Dr Jennifer Kelly re-think her life, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I am sure anyone who picks it up will as well, come and join everyone at Turtle Bay.

Dr Jennifer Kelly is an obstetrician in Manhattan, she is engaged to Richard a neurosurgeon, and life is good, yes. She has been bought up by her grandmother Muriel since being orphaned in Nepal at the age of seven, but life with Muriel means no love and not really getting emotionally involved, she is heading to be top of her field and Richard has their life all planned. Then Jennifer is left a dairy farm on an island in Australia by a grandfather she has never heard of, she and Muriel make the trip with plans to sell up but things might change when she meets the local Doctor as well as the cows and dog she now owns and the surf school.

Jack McLachlan has been back on the island since tragedy took his brother and his wife away, he did grow up there and loved it then but being a top Doctor in Sydney had its bonus’s and he is struggling with all that is happening especially since his friend Henry Kelly passed away, then when his granddaughter Jennifer arrives and hr meets her, he sets out to convince the staid and serious Jenny that she is an Islander and that doctoring, running a dairy farm and a surf school is just what she should be doing.

This is a fabulous book MS Lennox has dug deep into Jack and Jenny’s emotions and bought them to the surface, made them both see things that needed to be seen, I loved Jack from the start, really what a fabulous hero and Jenny wow what she had been through with Muriel and seeing her come to life and learn to love just had me cheering and smiling and then there is Muriel what a lady and all of the other amazing characters that make up the Islanders, this is a story that I highly recommend, it has all the feels and so much laughter and love. Thank you MS Lennox.
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