Can love begin before time runs out?
Pippa Bell never expected to flee her own wedding — or to end up stranded on Puffin Island at the beautifully ramshackle Clockmaker’s Cottage, the perfect place to get away from it all for the summer.
Her stay gets off to a rocky start when she discovers she’s sharing with her old university nemesis, Theo Blake. But, faced with a ferocious summer storm and trapped inside the tiny house, they end up working together to discover long-buried secrets about the cottage’s original owners.
As the storm rages outside and the cottage works its magic, Pippa discovers that sometimes the best shelter is found in the most unexpected arms…
This is the latest book in the Puffin Island series from Christie Barlow. This place is a fictional island sitting off the north east coast of England and accessible via a causeway at certain states of the tide. Books in this series generally focus on particular residents or visitors to the island, and often a particular building. There are always recurring characters, but each book is complete in itself.
This story sees the island hosting a horologists’ convention. It is an appropriate location since two brothers famous internationally for clock design and production once lived there. Having run away from her own wedding, leaving a stunned groom at the altar and still in her wedding dress, clock restorer Pippa Bell travels to Puffin Island, a place she has long dreamed of visiting. However, when she arrives at her accommodation, Clockmaker’s Cottage, she is dismayed to find that she is sharing it with Theo Blake, a rival from university days. Unfortunately, the weather is absolutely atrocious and the island is soon completely cut off, forcing the pair to get along. Practically trapped inside the lovely old cottage, they begin to work together to solve an old mystery concerning the clockmaking brothers. While they are doing that, they also explore how they came to be rivals at university and make some startling discoveries about themselves.
This story had me hooked from the very start and kept me engaged right to the last page. I think it is certainly the best in this series so far and I highly recommend it. It has lots going for it - a wonderful location, even in a horrific summer storm, a long-standing mystery, some wonderful food and a growing romance. There is even a sighting of the eponymous puffins.
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