Book review : appleby farm -There's simple no place like home .. By Cathey Bramley

THE PLOT

Red headed girl in her twenty five, Freya Moorecroft is a ball of energy, hopping from one place to another and loves taking on challenges in her life. This is the exact reason why she is still not well settled into a career or never had long term plans whatsoever. She loves outdoors and a 9 to 5 job confined within walls is the last thing she could possibly ever do.

Having a job as a waitress and living with her flatmate Tilly, Freya is a happy go lucky girl. Not being serious about her career choices was seen as a failure by her dad,mom and brother. As her life with her handsome fireman boyfriend Charlie at Kingsfield has begun to get serious, she gets a call from Appleby farm in Lovedale, Lake district changes entire course of her life.

Her life doesn't remain the same after an unfortunate call from her aunty Sue that her uncle Arthur had an accident at the farm. However when she ends up at the farm, things starts unfolding one after the other and she realizes soon that there is more danger awaiting. With Uncle Arthur having heart attack, the farm is in huge debt and half of the cattle having tested positive for TB, she is really challenged how to save the farm which was within the Moorecroft family for over a hundred years.

With an indomitable spirit, she puts all her energy into building what she names it as "Appleby farm vintage tea rooms" with a very humble set of people around Lovedale and her friends from kingsfield.
When everything seems upside down, against all odds she is still determined to save the farm as she is emotionally so attached to the farm where she grew up and loved it like her home.

MY THOUGHTS

Author Cathy Bramley has done a commendable job in giving a vivid description of the how beautiful lake district is and how special Cumbria is with a humble farmers community. working to save their farms in the modern times, making an existence on agriculture is no easy. All the Characters are very strong in the book and she really takes the reader deep into her imagination. Her English is elite, she has got an amazing grip on building the characters and also distinguish them distinctly from each other. Her plot is beautiful and its very difficult to lay down the hands from the reaching the ends of the book.

Hailing from a small town all the way down south of India, half way through the book I looked for places like Kingsfield, Lovedale, Lake distrct in the internet and it looks stunning. I looked into the map and browsed through instagram posts. The image of the farms around that area became more vivid in my mind and I started enjoying the book much more after actually seeing up its beauty.

A book setup in the spring, around the beautiful farms of lake district with a very close look into a farmer's daily life, the book captured my heart. it felt as if I did a time travel into everything that she had written down in the book. I was wishing that the book should never end. There is no single section of a book, where I felt bored, even for a page or couple of sentences. Its  a perfectly put up, light hearted warm read.

Story built around a humble girl who can get anything done on which she sets her heart onto, one who is later surrounded by a few humble people who help their best to put her dreams into reality, one who risks a perfect life with a perfect partner in a perfect city life for helping out her old aunt and uncle in a remote farm is heart touching. Freya's character is close to real life and it proves that there is always a way if there is a will to do it.

I love Cathy Bramley's writing style and I am glad my husband randomly picked this book at a book fair stall which was put up in ITPL, Bangalore.

Loads of love to Cathy to create more of such beautiful writings :-)

WHAT NEXT? 

Will Freya, with the limited resources she has, be able to save the farm out of its debt? Will she get back to her dad and her mom? Will she end up with her charming boyfriend Charlie or is it her neighbor farmer and her teenage friend Harry or she just emerges to be single self built business tycoon? Read on to know more ;)

A REAL PICTURE

My book across the street in Hubli, my home and across my bed covered with a sick looking sheet :D

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cathy Bramley is the author of the best-selling romantic comedies Ivy Lane, Appleby Farm, Wickham Hall, Conditional Love and The Plumberry School of Comfort Food. She lives in a Nottinghamshire village with her family and a dog.

Her recent career as a full-time writer of light-hearted, romantic fiction has come as somewhat of a lovely surprise after spending eighteen years running her own marketing agency. However, she has been always an avid reader, never without a book on the go and now thinks she may have found her dream job!

Cathy loves to hear from her readers. You can get in touch via her website www.CathyBramley.co.uk Facebook page Facebook.com/CathyBramleyAuthor or on Twitter twitter.com/CathyBramley