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The Summer Fair

By: Heidi Swain
Narrated by: Karen Cass
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About this listen

 'An absolutely gorgeous summer tale of love and secrets' RACHAEL LUCAS

Join Sunday Times bestseller Heidi Swain in Nightingale Square for a sunshine and celebration filled summer…

Beth loves her job working in a care home, looking after its elderly residents, but she doesn’t love the cramped and dirty house-share she currently lives in. So, when she gets the opportunity to move to Nightingale Square, sharing a house with the lovely Eli, she jumps at the chance.

The community at Nightingale Square welcomes Beth with open arms, and when she needs help to organise a fundraiser for the care home they rally round. Then she discovers The Arches, a local creative arts centre, has closed and the venture to replace it needs their help too – but this opens old wounds and past secrets for Beth.

Music was always an important part of her life, but now she has closed the door on all that. Will her friends at the care home and the people of Nightingale Square help her find a way to learn to love it once more…?

Your favourite authors love Heidi Swain's books:

'A summer delight!' SARAH MORGAN
'A delightfully sunny read with added intrigue and secrets' BELLA OSBORNE
'With heart-warming characters, a gorgeous summer setting, and a great story with secrets aplenty to keep you turning the pages, it's the perfect read to relax and curl up at home with' CAROLINE ROBERTS
'A ray of reading sunshine!' LAURA KEMP
'A lovely, sweet, summery read' MILLY JOHNSON©2022 Heidi Swain (P)2022 Simon & Schuster, UK Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Romance Small Town & Rural

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Critic reviews

‘Norwich’s fictional Nightingale Square is the setting for another feelgood novel by Heidi Swain’ Norfolk Magazine

‘Heidi Swain weaves a life-affirming story about the power of community’ Woman's Own

‘A charming read full of summer warmth’ My Weekly

‘This is the fourth in Heidi Swain’s Nightingale Square series but you don’t need to read the first three books to enjoy this charming story. It’s unexpectedly refreshing to read a novel partly set in a care home where we meet the mischievous, delightfully entertaining residents in their 80s who Beth looks after’ Daily Express and Daily Mirror
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I absolutely love Nightingale Square and it's residents, I feel like I know them well and feel part of their community, so I was very much looking forward to this addition. Beth and Eli's journeys are great. New additions to the square although at seperate times, are of course welcomed by everyone.
There is something magical about Nightingale Square and the growWell garden, it just pulls everyone together. You can really feel the warmth and caring nature of the residents and with Karen Cass narrating she just brings it all to life. The only problem with this author and narrator I never want the books to end!

Brilliant!

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I enjoyed this book as all the others, but couldn’t take to Eli at all just taking off for no reason instead of talking just didn’t sit right with me.

Another lovely book

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Another fab story from a brilliant author. Love the characters & great to be back in Nightingale square.

Another triumph

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Heidi Swain you’ve done it again, what an amazing book, loved it from start to finish, all the characters in it are amazing and make the book just perfect, I didn’t want it to end, and cannot wait till you write another book and we go back again to nightingale square.

What a fabulous book

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a very good story about turning your life around, when you feel lost and lonely, and becoming part of something.

grief to happiness,

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Lots of fun characters, stories interwoven and another perfectly narrated interpretation of a classic Heidi Swain book.

Lovely rose coloured story

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A new author to add to my list, it was a lovely, moving story.
I’ll definitely be listening to more of her books.

Brilliant

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This is book 5 of 6 books all featuring the residents of Nightingale Square based in Norwich.

This instalment is about Beth. She works in a care home dealing with some feisty characters. They are mischievous and Beth loves every moment working with them. The one thing she detests is the house she is currently sharing with a group of lazy and filthy housemates. They even expect her to clear up after them. She desperately needs a change of living arrangements. Suddenly she has an opportunity to live in ‘Nightingale Square’. Sadly it is almost a no go for her due to the price of the rent but, things happen and it becomes a reality.

She will be sharing with a guy called Eli. She does not meet him until the day after she moves in. There is a secret she is keeping and he brings back terrible memories by playing music.

Something happened in her life that made her swear she would never revisit the time when she had a dream. As Eli and Beth get to know each other she wants to keep music completely out of her life.

Eli has a reason that he only keeps music in the background. He was in a band with his now ex girlfriend and his best friend. That girlfriend made him choose between his friend and her. Sadly he chose the now ex girlfriend which meant losing his friend, his biggest regret.

The residents in the Square want to host a Summer Fair and they want some sort musical entertainment for the evening. Beth keeps her mouth shut and Eli even backs her up saying how much she hates music etc. He is unaware of her secret.

One day she finds herself humming in the house to his music. This leads to a showdown with Eli as he is pleased she is starting to appreciate music. She takes it personally and attacks him with her cutting words.

Now how does the author Heidi Swain tackle this? It was another great and easy read

*Summer Revelations*

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I enjoyed this book, I like Heidi Swain as they can be relied on to be a good read.

enjoyable book

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Love the different voices for the various characters. Beautifully read. Totally captivating in a gentle soothing way.

Delightful entertainment

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