About the book:
When Daisy’s mother falls ill she is forced to return home. With her twin sons in tow, she moves back to Half Moon Farm, her family’s ancient hop farm.
But a new life in the Kent countryside isn’t necessarily as idyllic as it might seem. Daisy’s relationship with her mother is complicated and the tumbledown farm isn’t the only thing that needs rebuilding. Daisy and her sons must adjust to life with estranged family, a leaking roof, and no WiFi.
Luckily for Daisy, she might yet find some distraction in silver fox farmer, Drew, or in the haughty heir to the nearby estate, Kit, who she can’t seem to avoid.
Daisy must learn to juggle her new life, the boys, and the daunting task of updating the farm. But there are secrets lurking in her family’s past that might throw everything into further disarray…
My review:
Return to Half Moon Farm by Holly Hepburn is a lovely story featuring Daisy, who takes her twin sons to live temporarily in her family home because her mother is ill.
Daisy and her mother have had a difficult relationship for a number of years so the return is fraught with tension.
While she is there, she meets two men, Drew a silver fox of a farmer who helps out at the farmhouse, and Kit who she is convinced is an Earl and member of a family her own family have feuded with for generations.
When Daisy finds love letters to her grandmother during war time from someone who was not her grandfather, she sets out to discover who her mystery man was. I loved the way the letters were insterspersed within the chapters and gradually revealed a story of true love.
I loved the friendship Daisy developed with Kit who was not as stuffy as he initially seemed. Their friendship paralled that of the friendship between the twins, and Kit’s daughter.
The references to The Secret Garden, a much loved book I read as a child, really captured my imagination and I loved that there was a similarly walled garden in the grounds of the castle.
This was a compelling book filled with new beginnings, secrets and lost love, and above all hope.
Many thanks to Team BATC, Simon & Schuster and Holly Hepburn for my invitation to take part in the blog tour. I received a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.
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https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Return-to-Half-Moon-Farm/Holly-Hepburn/9781398511989
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