Against overwhelming odds, can she save her legacy?
Gwenna's life is about to change. Her father is dead and the family business on
the brink of collapse. Thwarted by society, the plucky sweet maker refuses to
accept defeat.
Amid the bustling vibrancy of Auckland’s Karangahape Road, she promised her father she would fulfill his dreams and save her legacy. But thanks to her overbearing stepbrother that legacy is at risk. Gwenna must find hidden strengths and fight for her rights if she is to keep her promise.
She falls in love with the cheeky and charming Johnno, but just when things are beginning to look up, disaster strikes. Throughout the twists and turns of love and tragedy, Gwenna is irrepressible. She refuses to relinquish her goal and lets nothing and no one stand in her way. Blind to anything that could distract her, Gwenna overlooks the most important person in her life, putting her dreams, her family, and her chance at happiness in jeopardy.
Trigger Warnings:
Domestic violence, death.
Universal series links:
Gwenna The Welsh Confectioner: https://books2read.com/u/38eQDr
Brigid The Girl from County Clare: https://books2read.com/u/md67KW
The Costumier’s Gift: https://books2read.com/u/3n57eK
Vicky Adin
Vicky Adin is a family historian in love with
the past. Like the characters in her stories, she too, is an immigrant to New
Zealand, arriving a century after her first protagonists and ready to start a
new life.
Born in Wales, she grew up in Cornwall until age 12. Her family emigrated to New Zealand, a country she would call home. Vicky draws on her affinity for these places in her writing. Fast forward a few years, and she marries a fourth-generation Kiwi bloke with Irish, Scottish, and English ancestors, and her passion for genealogy flourishes.
The further she dug into the past the more she wanted to record the lives of the people who were the foundations of her new country. Not just her ancestors but all those who braved the oceans and became pioneers in a raw new land. Her research into life as it was for those immigrants in the mid-late 1800s and early 1900s gave her enough material to write about the land left behind and the birth of a new nation for many years.
Vicky holds a MA(Hons) in English, is a lover of art, antiques, gardens, good food, and red wine. She and her husband travel throughout New Zealand in their caravan and travel the world when they can. She hopes that younger generations also enjoy learning about the past through her stories as much as she had in writing them.
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Thank you so much for hosting today's tour stop for Gwenna The Welsh Confectioner.
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Mary Anne
The Coffee Pot Book Club
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