Starting From Scratch is now available in paperback and as an ebook. Links below!
Starting From Scratch
After a troubled childhood and the loss of her beloved grandmother, Sapphie Brown finally finds somewhere to call home - the close-knit rural community of Horseshoe Hill.
The locals love Sapphie because she never gives up - as chair of the environment committee, with the children in her classes, the troubled teens at the youth centre, the ex-racehorses she cares for and even the neglected farmhouse and gardens she wants make her own. Sapphie gives second chances to everything and everyone. Except Matts Laarkin.
An impossibly attractive environmental engineer who travels the world, Matts was Sapphie's closest childhood friend. He came to deliver a warning - now he doesn't want to leave.
All Sapphie wants to do is forget their painful past, but thrown together they discover an attraction that challenges what they thought they knew about each other. Do they have a chance to recapture what they lost so long ago? Or will long-buried secrets tear them apart?
In the flowers she creates from paper and the beauty that grows on the land, Sapphie has found perfect imperfection. Could that be what love is like too?
Reviews:
OneGirl2ManyBooks (Goodreads): There’s nothing better than starting the New Year with a wonderful book – I deliberately made this book my first read for 2021 because I felt like it would deliver that, based on previous experience and I was right… Sapphie really shone in this as a character, shaped by her past but brave enough to be embracing her future and I enjoyed Matts’ patience and quiet determination. Like the others, this ticked all my romance boxes.
Brenda (Goodreads): Starting From Scratch by Aussie author Penelope Janu was brilliant! I couldn’t fault one single word! This is only my second from her and it won’t be my last. Well written characters with great depth… An excellent read, Starting From Scratch is one I highly recommend and it’s going onto my ‘top reads for the year’ list!
Laura (Goodreads): Penelope Janu returns to the town of Horseshoe Hill to bring us Sapphie Brown’s story in this delightful, unputdownable, friends to lovers, stand alone romance. When they were children, Matts Laaksonen was Sapphie’s best friend and the boy she always wanted. Then they fall out and don’t see each other again for years. When Matts turns up in Horseshoe Hill, Sapphie wants nothing to do with him, but the two years, eight months and four days between them are no longer a barrier and Matts wants Sapphie…
These books are also available. For links, click on the images 💙
