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It's horrid here !
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 23 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Jocasta Bell is thirty-eight, freshly divorced, and has traded a five-bedroom house in Guildford for a damp fisherman's cottage in Porthgarrow - a Cornish village where everybody already knows your business before you've worked out how to tell it yourself.
She didn't come here looking for love. She came because the divorce settlement bought a cottage and a shoebox flat back home, and the shoebox seemed worse.
Then there's Jago: twice married, endlessly gossiped about, infuriatingly good at mending nets and even better at making her laugh flat on her back in a boat full of bilge water. He comes with a village's worth of opinions attached. She comes with twenty years of being told good girls don't want things loudly.
Between an ex-husband who isn't quite finished with her, a postmistress running odds on how long it'll last, and a father who once taught Jago that leaving is easier than staying, Porthgarrow has no shortage of ways to prove the locals right: it really is horrid here.
It might also be exactly where she's supposed to be.
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