Somewhere Beyond the Sea

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Can you fall in love with someone before you've even met Seren MacArthur is living a life she never intended. Trying to save the Cornish seaside business her late father built - while grieving for his loss - she has put her own dreams on hold and is struggling. Until she discovers a half-finished seaglass star on her favourite beach during an early morning walk. When she completes the star, she sets into motion a chain of events that will steal her heart and challenge everything she believes. Jack Dixon is trying to secure a better life for daughter Nessie and himself. Left a widower and homeless when his wife died, he's just about keeping their heads above water. Finding seaglass stars completed on Gwithian beach is a bright spark that slowly rekindles his hope. Seren and Jack are searching for their missing pieces. But when they meet in real life, it's on the opposing sides of a battle. Jack is managing the redevelopment of a local landmark, and Seren is leading the community campaign to save it. Both have reason to fight - Seren for the cause her father believed in, Jack for his livelihood. But only one can win. With so much at stake, will they ever find what they are really looking for Miranda Dickinson's Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a sparkling tale of love, life and finding magic where you least expect it.

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Family secrets, forgiveness, unlikely friendships and learning to love again . . . Searching For A Silver Lining is a story that touched my heart. I totally adored it -- Cathy Bramley, author of Wickham Hall
A sparky feel-good story that hits all the right buttons -- Fanny Blake, Sunday Express on Searching for a Silver Lining
This is my favourite of Miranda's books so far. It's original and hilarious and life-affirming, and full of magical moments. I really loved it -- Cressida McLaughlin, author of The Canal Boat Cafe on Searching for a Silver Lining
Miranda is such a big-hearted, generous writer, full of warmth and love -- Jenny Colgan, Sunday Times bestselling author

Author Bio

Miranda Dickinson has always had a head full of stories. From an early age she dreamed of writing a book that would make the heady heights of Kingswinford Library and today she is a bestselling author. She began to write in earnest when a friend gave her The World's Slowest PC, and has subsequently written the bestselling novels Fairytale of New York, Welcome to My World, It Started With a Kiss, When I Fall in Love, Take A Look At Me Now, I'll Take New York, A Parcel for Anna Browne and Searching for a Silver Lining. Miranda lives with her husband Bob and daughter Flo in Dudley.