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Second Chances at Channel View Farm
Fabrian Books' feel good novels are heart-warming romantic stories that leave you believing a happy ever after does exist.
Olivia has wasted five long years, waiting around for a dream that never came true. Leaving behind the heat and heartbreak of Brisbane, she seeks refuge at Channel View Farm – a wedding venue overlooking the Kent coast run by her childhood friend, Ellie.
The only thing Olivia knows for sure is that she wants to carry on the career she loves and be close to family and friends. But with her best friend in Kent and her family newly settled in Yorkshire, she can’t settle until she finds a job.
Ellie is about to marry the local vet, Ben, and there’s a full diary of events at the farm to keep Olivia’s mind off her troubles, as well as a part-time job at a summer camp where her dream job seems suddenly within her grasp.
But not everything at Channel View Farm is perfect. The business is in financial trouble and a growing friendship with Ben’s best man, Seth, is damaged by Olivia’s unwillingness to trust someone new. When Ben’s sister makes it clear that Olivia isn’t the only one with feelings for Seth, things only get more complicated.
Will the rescue of an abandoned horse and a stranded couple finally make Olivia believe that good men do exist? And can she and Seth find a way to help their friends? Or is she destined to spend her life in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Part of the Channel View Farm stand-alone series, 'Second Chances at Channel View Farm' is the stand-alone follow-up to the best-selling 'Give Me Your Answer Do', by the author of the best-selling feel good reads 'A Holly Bay Christmas' and 'A Highland Practice'.
Olivia has wasted five long years, waiting around for a dream that never came true. Leaving behind the heat and heartbreak of Brisbane, she seeks refuge at Channel View Farm – a wedding venue overlooking the Kent coast run by her childhood friend, Ellie.
The only thing Olivia knows for sure is that she wants to carry on the career she loves and be close to family and friends. But with her best friend in Kent and her family newly settled in Yorkshire, she can’t settle until she finds a job.
Ellie is about to marry the local vet, Ben, and there’s a full diary of events at the farm to keep Olivia’s mind off her troubles, as well as a part-time job at a summer camp where her dream job seems suddenly within her grasp.
But not everything at Channel View Farm is perfect. The business is in financial trouble and a growing friendship with Ben’s best man, Seth, is damaged by Olivia’s unwillingness to trust someone new. When Ben’s sister makes it clear that Olivia isn’t the only one with feelings for Seth, things only get more complicated.
Will the rescue of an abandoned horse and a stranded couple finally make Olivia believe that good men do exist? And can she and Seth find a way to help their friends? Or is she destined to spend her life in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Part of the Channel View Farm stand-alone series, 'Second Chances at Channel View Farm' is the stand-alone follow-up to the best-selling 'Give Me Your Answer Do', by the author of the best-selling feel good reads 'A Holly Bay Christmas' and 'A Highland Practice'.
171 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 3, 2017
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September 12, 2017
I am undoubtedly going to be unpopular here, but this story is in serious need of editing and proof-reading. I gave up reading at 22% when I came across yet another punctuation error that should have been spotted during proof-reading.
Here is one example:
"Oh yes a tea with two sugars would work wonders and I think I could use a biscuit too, that flipping dog has taken years off my life. There should be some biscuits in the tin by the kettle, but, if not, I'll let you in on a secret, there's some chocolate digestives hidden on the top shelf of the larder that Hetty can't reach. He laughed, looking much better than he had a few minutes before.
There was also a ??!!?? moment when Olivia is asked if she has delivered art therapy before and she replies that she did a lot of art therapy with the children she taught in Australia. Art Therapists have to have taken a post-graduate qualification in Art Therapy, which takes 2 to 3 years. There is no way Olivia had done that.
Here is one example:
"Oh yes a tea with two sugars would work wonders and I think I could use a biscuit too, that flipping dog has taken years off my life. There should be some biscuits in the tin by the kettle, but, if not, I'll let you in on a secret, there's some chocolate digestives hidden on the top shelf of the larder that Hetty can't reach. He laughed, looking much better than he had a few minutes before.
There was also a ??!!?? moment when Olivia is asked if she has delivered art therapy before and she replies that she did a lot of art therapy with the children she taught in Australia. Art Therapists have to have taken a post-graduate qualification in Art Therapy, which takes 2 to 3 years. There is no way Olivia had done that.
November 30, 2023
I seriously love Jo's stories! I had just finished listening to book 1 in this series yesterday and immediately moved on to book 2. I had the inkling it would focus on Ellie's best friend Olivia coming back to the UK, but it also featured Ellie, Ben, Karen and Alan.... the main characters that we had come to love in book 1. It's therefore best enjoyed as part of the series, but it would also be fine as a stand-alone as the main focus here is on Olivia. Olivia was just as lovely as Ellie and I was rooting for her to get her second chance both career wise and in relationships all the way through. A real feel good story!
August 15, 2017
An amazing sequel to Give Me Your Answer Do that can also be read as a stand alone story.
True to the feel-good collection it belongs to, this wonderful new book by Jo bartlett will give you a few hours of pure escapism to an idyllic place and leave you feeling fulfilled and full of hope.
Pefectly plotted as usual.
I was wondering if we will be hearing again of Channel View farm and Kelsea Bay anytime soon?
It's addictive.
True to the feel-good collection it belongs to, this wonderful new book by Jo bartlett will give you a few hours of pure escapism to an idyllic place and leave you feeling fulfilled and full of hope.
Pefectly plotted as usual.
I was wondering if we will be hearing again of Channel View farm and Kelsea Bay anytime soon?
It's addictive.
December 23, 2021
A lifestyle change Australia seemed to be but dreams do always work
Back home from after thinking she found her dream man Kent a farm channel view a wedding her best friend needing to rethink her choices helping her makes her stronger Seth appears soon to go on his dream job in America but love finds away as usual and a horse joey in need of care plus a summer camp for special needs children and a sheep !!
Back home from after thinking she found her dream man Kent a farm channel view a wedding her best friend needing to rethink her choices helping her makes her stronger Seth appears soon to go on his dream job in America but love finds away as usual and a horse joey in need of care plus a summer camp for special needs children and a sheep !!
September 1, 2024
Very disappointed that this book uses a lot of details of incidents and personality traits from the first book into and then changing these into the experiences that the main characters involved in this have. In some cases pages of dialogue are used.
February 25, 2018
A brilliant book love reading it from page one till the last page
Lovely story not one of them sexy novels
Thank you
Lovely story not one of them sexy novels
Thank you
April 13, 2018
Sweet and sickly
But good for all the romantic out there. Unlikely that life would happen as you are expected to believe in this book but it would be nice.
But good for all the romantic out there. Unlikely that life would happen as you are expected to believe in this book but it would be nice.
June 4, 2018
Nice feel Good story
A feel good story where everyone was perfect for each other. Easy to read. I wish life was really like that.
A feel good story where everyone was perfect for each other. Easy to read. I wish life was really like that.
June 30, 2018
Quite enjoyed this one.
July 13, 2018
Light and fluffy, how can you not like a wee bit of romance :-)
March 31, 2019
Easy read that a nice feel good book!
July 22, 2021
Yet again
Lovely story line. I grew up by the sea in Kent too so the story really held happy memories too.
Lovely story line. I grew up by the sea in Kent too so the story really held happy memories too.
March 6, 2023
Very short and pretty predictable. It was nice to listen to but not my favourite by Jo.
February 19, 2024
This was a fun part 2 in this series.
A shortish easy listen, with all the normal goings on you would expect from this author
A shortish easy listen, with all the normal goings on you would expect from this author
July 26, 2024
I think I’ve reached the point where one character giving up their dreams for someone they met minutes ago is no longer romantic and is, in fact, just stupid.
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May 22, 2018
Sweet Read
I downloaded this via Kindle Prime after the cover caught my eye. It was a sweet, romantic read about a woman whom, after a disastrous time in Australia, comes back to England and tries not to fall for her best friend's fiance's best friend.
It was well-written and I found myself laughing out loud at some of the humour in the story. It was a quick read, too, having read the entire book within a single daily commute to work and back.
Recommended if you are looking for a quick, feel-good romantic read.
I downloaded this via Kindle Prime after the cover caught my eye. It was a sweet, romantic read about a woman whom, after a disastrous time in Australia, comes back to England and tries not to fall for her best friend's fiance's best friend.
It was well-written and I found myself laughing out loud at some of the humour in the story. It was a quick read, too, having read the entire book within a single daily commute to work and back.
Recommended if you are looking for a quick, feel-good romantic read.
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