Lizzie Chantree's The little ice cream shop by the sea Is Out Today!

Novelist Lizzie Chantree’s new book The little ice cream shop by the sea is out!

I’m currently reading Chantree’s If you love me, I’m yours and quite enjoying it. You might also remember my review for her book Networking for Writers.

Without further ado:

The little ice cream shop by the sea blurb:

Genie’s family is in crisis. Their seafront business is failing with the loss of Genie’s grandmother and her legendary ice cream flavours. Genie is determined to be the one to save her family’s heritage, but suddenly her mother wants to sell to developers and leave their shared history behind.

Buying the business and taking on a sixty-eight year old business partner, Ada, with a mysterious past and a gorgeous but distracting grandson, Genie sets out to prove her parents wrong.

Ada’s grandson, Cal, wants to protect his gran from ‘pensioner persuader’, Genie, but soon realises that living in a little seaside town and away from the paparazzi in Hollywood can actually give him time to heal. Hiding in a seafront business with its fiery owner and working as kitchen staff, is the only way he can think of to keep his ex-Hollywood glamour-puss, gran from harm. But his meddling might also ruin Ada’s second chance at love.

Hiring a private detective and learning about Genie’s parent’s past makes Cal regret his own impulsiveness. The information he has unearthed could destroy their blossoming romance and turn Genie’s world upside down.

Genie soon discovers that friends can become enemies and your closest family can have lied to you for your whole life.

In Lizzie Chantree’s own words:

Tell us the basic premise of your novel.

The little ice cream shop by the sea is about a close family who run a seaside business buried in tradition, but a sudden incident throws them into turmoil and they all try to cope with the repercussions in their own way. The main character Genie doesn’t know why her family suddenly decides to sell the family business that she’s worked in since before she left school, but she’s determined that they won’t throw away her heritage so easily and fights to make them stay.

The friendship between Genie and pensioner Ada, who starts as a customer, becomes a lifeline for both women. Throw in some dashing locals who set their heart on helping Genie and a furious grandson who is out to protect his grandmother, and you have a sizzling story full of sunshine, secrets and finding love when you least expect it.

What is at the heart of the book?

At the heart of the book is the blossoming friendship between Genie, who runs the ice cream shop with her family and customer, Ada. Ada has a secret past and a celebrity grandson who decides to fly in from America to meddle in his grandmother’s life. This has consequences for both Genie and Ada. The story follows their journey and they realise that love can appear in the most unexpected places.

This book will be at a special price of 99p/99c for 7 days only, from launch day. It will then be £2.99 again after that.

More About the Author

International bestselling author Lizzie Chantree, started her own business at the age of 18 and became one of Fair Play London and The Patent Office’s British Female Inventors of the Year. She writes books full of friendship and laughter, about women with unusual businesses, who are stronger than they realise.

You can connect with her here:

Website: www.lizziechantree.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lizzie_Chantree