'Brenda Bowen's Enchanted August is a perfect summer read for any time of the year' Everyone needs a place like Hopewell Cottage a romantic holiday rental on a small sunny island. For Rose and Lottie it's a refuge from the frenzy of the school gates. For Beverly it's a chance to say goodbye to two lost loves. And for disgraced movie star Caroline it offers the anonymity she craves. But on tiny Little Lost Island with its cocktail parties tennis matches and Ladies Association for Beautification will they really find the answers to their very modern problems? Delightful... I'm dreaming of blueberries and Maine lobster. We all need a sunny island or castle to which we can run away Helen Simonson author of MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND

Brenda Bowen read Pride and Prejudice in one sitting when she was twelve and has never quite recovered. She grew up in Surrey and now lives in New York, spending as much of her summer as she can on an island much like Little Lost Island in Maine. Her favourite food in all the world is the blueberry.