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13 May 2026
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
All ages welcome
£5.00
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Serenity Booksellers (Romiley)
The talk will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
Tickets are £5.00 each, £9.99 including a copy of Somewhere Only We Know or The House of Hidden Letters. There’s also an option to buy both books for £18.00 (saving £1.98 off the RRP). Light refreshments are included in the ticket price.
Event starts at 6:30pm (doors at 6pm)
About the Books:
Somewhere Only We Know – Cathy Bramley
When Magnolia Jones suffers an unimaginable loss, her heart breaks into pieces. But the discovery of her daughter’s notebook prompts her to book a flight, and set off on an adventure to complete the gap year trip she planned to take.
On the opposite side of the world, Jackson wonders what happened to the beautiful young woman who stole his heart on the beaches of Bali. Who did she become? And does she still remember the magical summer they fell in love?
As Magnolia follows in her daughter’s footsteps, she learns to laugh, cry and that life is worth living – leading her back into the arms of the man who changed her life forever.
The House of Hidden Letters – Izzy Broom
For sale: Greek cottage. Price: One Euro.
Skye doesn’t make impulsive decisions. But when she sees a derelict Greek cottage for sale by lottery, she enters with dreams of a fresh start.
However, her heart sinks as she pushes open the tattered blue door weeks later. Can this wreck ever be her home?
Then Skye finds a bundle of letters hidden in the fireplace, their faded pages drawing her in with a story of long-forgotten love, tragedy, and unbelievable bravery.
But all the while, Skye’s own past is circling. No matter how far she goes, fate is never far behind…
About the Authors:
Cathy Bramley is the Sunday Times bestselling author of eighteen novels and has sold almost two million copies worldwide. She has been a lover of stories since she was a small child and used to beg her mother to take her to the library every week for new books. Many of her passions have come and gone over the years, but her love for story, drama and romance will last a lifetime.
Cathy’s books are about people she would want to be friends with, characters her readers will cheer for. They are about ordinary women doing extraordinary things. Cathy has two grown-up daughters and lives in a small village in the English countryside. Her house overlooks fields of barley and the garden is full of fruit trees: damson, plum, pear and, of course, Bramley apples!
Izzy (Isabelle) Broom is the author of 12 escapist books and has been published in 14 overseas territories. In 2015, she won The Great British Write Off with her short story, The Wedding Speech, which was later adapted into a prize-winning short film. Her fifth novel, One Thousand Stars and You, was awarded Contemporary Romance Novel of the Year at the 2019 RNAs. Formerly a Book Reviews Editor at heat magazine and Woman & Home, Izzy still works for magazines on a freelance basis and is an editor and mentor at Curtis Brown Creative. She currently lives in Suffolk, surrounded by books, family, unruly dogs, and a rooster from the farm next door, who has inexplicably fallen in love with her.
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