The Beach Hut [Paperback]

'exuberant novel of love, lust, hopes and dreams' (Fanny Blake WOMAN AND HOME )

'The perfect romantic read for long, lazy days at the beach.' (NETMUMS )

'This sweet book would be a great beach companion.' **** (STAR )

'a perfect summer delight' (Natasha Harding THE SUN )

'It may well be my read of the summer so far. Simply brilliant.' (CHICK LIT REVIEWS )

'Beautifully written and scorched with breathtaking drama, you'll simply want to park your deck chair in a quiet spot and revel in the mesmerising world of Everdene Sands.' (Shari Low DAILY RECORD )

'FOR SALE: a rare opportunity to purchase a beach hut on the spectacular Everdene Sands. "The Shack" has been in the family for fifty years, and was the first to be built on this renowned stretch of golden sand...' Jane Milton doesn't want to sell her beloved beach hut, which has been the heart of so many family holidays and holds so many happy memories. But when her husband dies, leaving her with an overwhelming string of debts, she has no choice but to sell. THE BEACH HUT follows the stories of the people who own the beach huts, families who come to Everdene each year, people who fall in - or out of - love, remembering their pasts, or trying to forget them... Veronica Henry has brilliantly drawn together the comings and goings of life at the beach huts over one long, hot, lazy summer...

Veronica Henry has written a novel which brilliantly captures everything we love about a seaside holiday. Who hasn't looked at a row of beach huts and wondered about the occupants?

What I love about this book is that Veronica Henry gives every character a story - from the teenage boy suddenly struck by the beauty of the girl in the hut next door, to the mum desperate to turn her life around, to the grandmother remembering the man who broke her heart all those years before on the very same beach. Over a glorious summer, secrets are revealed, promises are made and when the beach huts are locked up for the final time, nothing will be quite the same.

This is the perfect beach read - a chance to peek into the lives of one family spending a last summer at their beach hut. Delicious.

Veronica Henry worked as a scriptwriter for THE ARCHERS, HEARTBEAT and HOLBY CITY, amongst many others, before turning to fiction. Her fourth novel, AN ELIGIBLE BACHELOR, was shortlisted for the RNA NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2006. Veronica lives with her husband and three sons in a village in North Devon and has recently learnt to surf.