Blogmas Day- 22: Book Review: Kate and Clara's Cornish Craft Shop by Ali McNamara

Book: Kate and Clara's Curious Cornish Craft Shop

Author: Ali McNamara

Pages: 285

Read on: Kindle

Read in: 3 hours

Plot Summary: Kate thinks all her wishes have come true when she opens her own little craft shop in the idyllic harbour town of St Felix.

But she soon finds a mystery lingers in her new shop - a sixty-year-old love story told through beautiful paintings and intricate embroideries.

Jack, the owner of the nearby art shop, volunteers to help Kate unravel the mystery, but in doing so they realise their own lives share some uncanny similarities with Clara and Arty, their 1950s counterparts . . .

Can Kate and Jack put right a decades-old wrong, and maybe find their own happy ending on the way?

Things I Liked:

1. What attracted me to this book was its cute and cozy premise. A tiny craft store in a small Cornish costal town. Hints of a romance. Hints of some mystery from the 1950s. It seemed like just the perfect kind of book to read this time of the year!

2. The story of this book moves between present day to the events that took place in the late 1950s. It moves between a love story in present day and a budding love story in the late 1950s. It also has hints of magical realism or just plain old magic. There is also a little mystery about a painting and the artist who painted it. So, basically, it has lots going on and each sub-plot, as it were, is quite engaging.

3. The book is a very cosy read. It is full of sweet characters, beautiful descriptions of a little costal Cornish town and also of cute stationery stores! What is not to love? However, this book is not all shallow and cutesy (nothing wrong with being those things) but also has a character grappling with his disability. There is also an attempt to correct an injustice. Lots of nice, kind things happening, which is always a good thing!

4. In a year where all we have had is one bad news after another on TV (and perhaps even in real life), it is nice to read a book where good things happen to good people and life showers a little bit of magic on those who need it! Always a nice thing to read this time of the year.

Rating: 4/5

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