A BRAND NEW sparkling, uplifting story about love,
friendship and learning to spread your wings from Samantha Tonge✨🦋
Perfect for fans of Shari Low, Faith Hogan and Evie Woods!
Una Lowe lives a perfectly edited life in London. Other than
her best friend, she’s careful about who she lets in. Emotional complications
are just that – complicated. That is, until she rescues a rare white swallow…
who might have just flown in to change her life.
Because, when her beloved swallow fails to return from
migration one year, Una’s world crumbles. But a viral social media campaign
brings a miraculous response from a man in Bavaria named Konrad, who claims the
bird has also visited him. Which leads him to invite Una to his picturesque
village for the chance to see their shared feathered friend together.
Stepping out of her comfort zone, Una flies to Germany.
Amidst snow-dusted streets, local festivals, and Konrad’s undeniable charm,
Una’s protective walls begin to fall down.
But when the complication she’s avoided her whole life comes
for her, she’s forced to confront her deepest fears. As autumn turns to winter,
and inspired by the tiny, brave bird that brought them together, Una must
decide if she is finally ready to risk her heart.
Is the only way to know if you can fly to face a possibility
of falling…?
My Thoughts
This is an uplifting and hopeful read with a real festive flavour and plenty of lively characters. Una has had a dysfunctional but affluent childhood and has plenty of issues to come to terms with concerning her distant parents. Her friend Ziggy and his mother give her all the family love and affection she has missed. They are the family she has chosen. Una has formed a close attachment for a beautiful swallow who she nursed back from injury. In her quest to find the bird who has failed to call on her this summer, Una travels to Bavaria and meets Konrad who changes her life.
There is plenty of romance in this story and its descriptions of snowy Bavaria set the festive scene so well, full of sugary treats, sparkling lights and snowy landscapes. Una has to decide whether she is brave enough to take a risk and start a relationship. Having spent most of the book avoiding her parents, she finds that a conversation changes her viewpoint a little.
In short: friendship, affection and kindness
About the Author
Samantha Tonge lives in Manchester UK. She studied German and French at
university and has worked abroad, including a stint at Disneyland Paris. She
has travelled widely.
Samantha
has sold many dozens of short stories to women’s magazines. She is represented
by Darley Anderson Agency & Associates. In 2015 her summer novel, Game of
Scones, hit #5 in the UK Kindle chart and won the Love Stories Awards Best
Romantic Ebook category. In 2020 one of her novels won the RNA’s Jackie Collins
Romantic Thriller Award. Currently Samantha writes uplifting, emotional women’s
fiction for Boldwood Books. She seeks to raise a smile, and make a reader feel
they are not alone with the challenges of life.
