This book should carry a health warning. The cover alone is sufficient to transport the reader to warmer shores and envisage waking on a sunny morning to the sound of lapping water. For all who have ever longed to live near the sea, this book is a wonderful source of potential locations, colour palettes and varying interior styles guaranteed to inspire. For those of us unable to fulfil the dream, it provides hours of escapist pleasure reviving memories of childhood holidays or adult sorties to exotic locations. A surefire antidote to a long English winter.