Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage

Author/Guide: Heidi Swain

Why a Booktrail?

2000s: Wynbridge in Cambridge is a fine place for a house called Cuckoo Cottage!

ISBN: 978-1471147289
Genre: Fiction, Romance

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What you need to know before your trail

When Lottie Foster’s grandmother’s best friend Gwen dies, she leaves Lottie her lovely home, Cuckoo Cottage.

Lottie loves the cottage but Matt, a charming local builder, points out that beneath its charm it is falling apart. Luckily he is always on hand to help with the problems that somehow seem to keep cropping up. But is he just a bit too good to be true? Certainly Will, Lottie’s closest neighbour, seems to think so.

Lottie plans to set up her own business renovating vintage caravans. She hasn’t told anyone about the project she has cooked up with Jemma from The Cherry Tree Café to repurpose Gwen’s old caravan and turn it into a gorgeous tearoom.

But before she can finally enjoy living with her legacy she must uncover who she can trust, and who to avoid. And with two men vying for her attention, will she also find love?

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Wynbridge

Sadly not a real place but it could be somewhere like St Ives in Cambridgeshire/East Anglia as it has the setting and the atmosphere of the book AND a cafe called Cherry Valley – it might be a chinese takeaway here but take a look beside the river and it merges into a riverside, village setting you can imagine. This is a nice village with lots of cafes and cake shops – try Tom’s Cakes for some really tasty treats

Wynbridge is a very nice place to be: and Cuckoo Cottage is just outside of it. People in the village have been waiting to see what will happen to this place, who will inherit it, what will become of it etc.It’s been left for so long that everyone’s interest is even more than it might have been. This cottage is on everyone’s radar.

“I needn’t have been worried about Cuckoo cottage not living up to my rose-tinted memories because it looked simply perfect in every possible way. I could see that the fruit bushes and garden which surrounded the cottage were a little overgrown and some of the pale blue paint on the windows and door frames was beginning to peel in places, but in essence, my new home was every bit as idyllic as I remembered.

Built on an angle on a generous plot, the front of the house faced the vegetable patch and currently empty greenhouse, while the back overlooked a pretty traditional cottage garden and the never-ending horizon over the fields beyond”