Harper Woods and her best friend Pip run Silver Hill Farm, a tea room, in the British Countryside. Wanting to expand their business, Shay McArthur, Harper’s Fiancé is busy building the foundations for holiday lets at the back of the property.

Whilst digging Shay unearths a box filled with what looks like antique jewellery. Whilst he might want to sell them and make a quick buck, Harper does the right thing and contacts the local museum to see if they can help discover what the item actually are and who they belong to.

It doesn’t take long for word to get out about the jewellery though, and with newspaper reporters sniffing round Harper is worried about her safety as she has an abusive ex that doesn’t know where she is. Plus, people start laying claim to the items, especially Lord Frampton who owns Silver Hill House.

I haven’t read anything by Tilly Tennant in a while, but knowing how much I loved her books, I decided to give this one a read and I wasn’t disappointed.

The Summer of Secrets, is a wonderfully uplifting book. There is so much going on, not only with Harper, but with the rest of the cast too. It was also refreshing to see a gay character featured in a Chick-Lit-Esq book.

The plot has been perfectly executed and the scenery is so vividly described that at times I felt like I was standing alongside Harper. I loved every single page of The Summer of Secrets and found myself hooked right from the off. This is one of those books that was just a delight to read and I looked forward to returning to it each and every time I had to put it down.

About the Author

Tilly Tennant was born in Dorset, the oldest of four children, but now lives in Staffordshire with a family of her own. After years of dismal and disastrous jobs, including paper plate stacking, shop girl, newspaper promotions and waitressing (she never could carry a bowl of soup without spilling a bit), she decided to indulge her passion for the written word by embarking on a degree in English and creative writing. She wrote a novel in 2007 during her first summer break at university and has not stopped writing since. She also works as a freelance fiction editor, and considers herself very lucky that this enables her to read many wonderful books before the rest of the world gets them.

Hopelessly Devoted to Holden Finn was her debut novel; published in 2014 it was an Amazon bestseller in both the UK and Australia. In 2016 she signed to the hugely successful Bookouture and is currently working on her next Tilly Tennant novel. She also writes as Sharon Sant, where she explores the darker side of life, and Poppy Galbraith, where things get a little crazier.