This Time It's Different

by Lucy Cooper

Another showdown with her business partner is not what Rachel needed. But enough is enough and when a family crisis erupts she jumps at the chance to help. Maybe getting away from London will give her the space she needs to re-think her life. The trouble is, that’s not quite as easy as she thinks with an abandoned four year old niece to bond with and a brother who can’t seem to cope.

Making friends with Jane, a widow who lives at The Hall, is just what Rachel needs. Although Jane is a staunch ally her eldest son Jonathon is definitely not. Mistrustful and withdrawn, Jonathon does not want his inheritance but does his charming younger brother Charlie have what it takes?

With her first local catering event in danger of turning into a disaster and the love she is hoping for as much out of reach as ever, Rachel’s dreams of a new life seem to be in danger of dissolving fast. Will she be tempted to return to the life she once so longed to leave behind?

295 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 29, 2017

About the author

Lucy Cooper is a writer with a special interest in folk tales, fairy tales and mythology. She grew up in Penwith, Cornwall, on the far southwestern tip of Britain, a land steeped in tales of the “little people”. Her fascination with folk tales, myth and legend has taken her from the temples of China, to the back roads of Bulgaria, and lots of places in between.

She has a degree in Anthropology, an MA in Professional Writing, specialising in Cornish folk tales, and an MA in Myth & Ecology. Her book The Element Encyclopedia of Fairies (HarperCollins) saw her delving into the topsy-turvy world of fairies…

Lucy is faculty at The West Country School of Myth, a wilderness-rites-of-passage guide, and editor at Cista Mystica Press publishing the work of award-winning mythteller Dr Martin Shaw on folklore, myth and initiatory encounters with wilderness. Her writing on myth, fairytales and folklore has been published in Dark Mountain and Elementum Journal, among others.

Lucy spends her time between Penwith and Dartmoor. Recently she completed a 350-mile walking pilgrimage on the Michael Mary Way, from Cornwall to Avebury, visiting ancient sites, holy wells, stone circles, churches and shrines, to reconnect in our times of ecological crisis with the teachings and stories of the land.