I absolutely love all Debby's novels - I live in Manchester but visit Cornwall at least twice a year and love the fact that I can relate to the places - cant wait for the next one - keep up the good work Debby
any mysteries with cornwall as setting are bound to be good, but debby fowler takes the cake. i loved the first one - letting go - and immediately followed it up with intensive care. both times i could imagine i was in cornwall myself, in midst these lovable characters, sharing their anxieties and triumphs. a memorable experience. looking out for no. 3 and 4 at affordable prices and hoping for lots more. marga in germany
Just finished "Smoke Damage" - brilliant, like the former 3 books. We have stayed in St Ives at least once a year for the past 19 years but not able to come this year but luckily Amazon came up trumps. Cant wait for book 5 - wish you could write a bit faster!!!! Best Wishes Gracie
I visited Penzance for the first time last month and found myself trudging back from St. Michaels Mount--fantastic--facing a lonely evening at the B&B with--horrors!--nothing to read! Thankfully a bookshop hadn't yet closed so I hurried in, as quickly as my aching feet could carry me, and asked him if he had any "cozy" mysteries. He suggested a few and then I asked if he had any set in Cornwall. He pulled out "Letting Go" and gave Debby a high recommendation. I bought the book and that night, and on the ensuing train journey back to Somerset the following day, was enthralled. Now that I am back in the US I am sad to see that there are no US distributors so I shall have to use amazon.co.uk. But I shall pay the extra costs because I am completely hooked; can't wait to see what Felicity gets up to next, how her relationships with Keith, with Annie, with her friends back in Oxford, progress. Thanks so much Debby!
I have been waiting with mounting impatience for this fourth adventure for Felicity Paradise and now it is out I am just off on holiday so shall have to possess my soul in patience till I get back to order it up for myself and as stock!
Both Felicity and Keith Penrose are very likeable individuals and one senses the underlying affinity they feel 'should' go somewhere! However being genuinely honourable i think it'd be wildly out of character for them to do anything that'd involve cheating and cheapening of their friendship. This makes the speculation all the more tantalising! Will something have to happen to Keith's wife to 'free' him or will Felicity find romance coming from a different direction? Somehow I reckon she and Keith are destined to be a couple, however. I guess it's a testimony to the quiet quality of Debby's writing that such fictional relationships seem so convincingly real!! Apart from all that, of course I am itching to see what further Cornish exploits Felicity and Keith get entangled in and what corners of Cornwall we get to visit next!!
Roll on Number Five..and I haven't even read No4 yet!
I've just returned to Florida from a wonderful visit to Cornwall. Hiked to the top of St. Michael's Mount and saw the magical light bathe St. Ives at dusk. Enchanting! also enchanting was The Silver Sea....Felicity is a spunky, wonderful character and the background info of the area takes me back to that special place.
Thank you. Debby....hope I can find the other books in the USA.
can't wait for smoke damage to come out. Some of the best books that I have ever read. Set in idyllic Cornwall.what could be better than to be in Cornwall reading afirst class book. I have not seen any of the books for sale in my local bookshops in Bradford West Yorkshire, have always bought them when we have been on holiday in fantastick Cornwall{St Ives}
A friend recently lent me 'Letting Go' and 'Intensive Car' and I thoroughly enjoyed them both. Felicity is a very believable character and the stories are very good. Without doubt the sort of book I could not put down. I look forward to Debbie's next two books.
Maureen
As a bookseller and one responsible for the Crime Fiction section, lots of stuff of very varying quality have passed through my hands over the years. However when I chanced upon 'Letting Go' in the bookseller's in St Ives I instinctively knew I was on to a winner from the opening lines!
You'd think a heroine given to transfixing moments of 'second sight' might be rather a fey lady but actually Felicity is very much a modern woman and she has to learn fast and adjust to all sorts of emotional and physical challenges and does so with real warmth, resilience and spirit. None of the characters in the series is without depth and the stories are splendidly intriguing.
The stories all are marked by a delightful warmth and humanity, the poignancy and sensitivity, along with lots of gentle joys, counterpointing the tragedies of murders and hatreds.
Furthermore if you like Cornwall, particularly Penwith, Mrs Fowler's sense of place and atmosphere is the next best thing to being there in person! Her descriptions make me quite wistful for summer/autumn days spent in Penzance and St Ives and the whole penninsula! You can practically hear the waves crashing off the north Penwith cliffs or feel the sun beating down on a sun kissed St Ives harbour!
Really, this writing should enjoy a far wider readership and though I respect enormously Truran Books for publishing it I am astonished one of 'bigger boys'of the publishing industry haven't snapped the series up! I've now happily got all three in our Waterstone's Glasgow shelves and Recommending them like mad.
If you like the likes of Ann Granger or Caroline Graham, just try Debby Fowler's Felicity Paradise- the books simply will refuse to let you put them down!
Marks out of ten=full ten!!
Just returned from St Ives where I bought and read Letting Go. I couldn't put it down! Being there and reading such a good book, which was also based in St Ives was double the joy. Thank you.
I bought Letting Go from the newsagents on the harbour at St Ives last year and loved it. Have just finished Intensive Care and look forward to the new one.
I discovered St Ives 3 years ago and absolutely love it. It is my spiritual home. Reading the books with the mentions of all the places I know in the town makes me feel closer. I live in East Anglia and only get down to St Ives twice a year.
The books are so well written. Cant put them down once I start reading. Thank you
Are we to identify the Martin Tregonning of page 126 with the Martin Trethewey of page 251? Did Keith have a simple lapse of memory, confusing two very Cornish names, while Fizzy did not notice?
I have -of course- enjoyed both the books. Their Cornish settings give them a special appeal to a Cornwall dweller.
Dear Debbie,
Thank you for two brilliant books. I love St.Ives and have been holidaying there since 1965; but I've only just dicovered Oxford since my wife attends medical courses there. I read the first book in July and it was odd, staying in North Oxford,and having just eaten at the pancake restaurant in North Parade to go back to the hotel and read about Felicity and Gilla eating in that same restaurant. The next day I visited Blenheim and, sitting with a coffee, unable to put the book down, was reading about Gilla's shop in nearby Woodstock ! Indeed so un-put-downable was the book that I ended up on a seat outside the changing room in the Oxford branch of Next making my wife try on lots more clothes so I could finish the story ! And I did ! The second book is even better. Your description of St.Ives out of season is beautiful, the characters so well drawn. I can't wait for the next one. I work for the BBC and my thought too was that they would make excellent television. I hope that somebdy is approaching the head of drama with that thought in mind.
Have just come home from a glorious holiday in the Lizard Peninsula and whilst there I bought "Letting Go". I simply could not put it down and then I found "Intensive Care" which I am enjoying just as much. I shall be so disappointed when I finish this that I will have to wait until next year for the third book. I'm hooked. I have never seen this lady's books in my book shops in the Lincolnshire Wolds and I wonder if I can order direct from you.
I have read "Letting Go" with great pleasure. I love Cornwall and know the area you write about quite well. I look forward to reading "Intensive Care". Thank you for the joy you have given me through the pages of your book.
I liked the first book and am half way through the second. They are good but if there's another one can Felicity have friends in another part of Oxford eg Blackbird leys? Thats where I live and its a great place.
I am so looking forward to reading Intensive Care and sharing lashings of red wine and intrigue with Felicity in 'The Sloop'. The game old bird! I am hoping there may be a little romance for poor Felicity, we could do with a good romp!!!
The development of both the plot and the characters make these novels interesting and enjoyable. I would recommend reading them in order, ie Letting Go first, in order to be introduced to the characters and start to take an interest in their lives - having just finished Intensive Care I keenly await the next book in the series.
I visited Penzance for the first time last month and found myself trudging back from St. Michaels Mount--fantastic--facing a lonely evening at the B&B with--horrors!--nothing to read! Thankfully a bookshop hadn't yet closed so I hurried in, as quickly as my aching feet could carry me, and asked him if he had any "cozy" mysteries. He suggested a few and then I asked if he had any set in Cornwall. He pulled out "Letting Go" and gave Debby a high recommendation. I bought the book and that night, and on the ensuing train journey back to Somerset the following day, was enthralled. Now that I am back in the US I am sad to see that there are no US distributors so I shall have to use amazon.co.uk. But I shall pay the extra costs because I am completely hooked; can't wait to see what Felicity gets up to next, how her relationships with Keith, with Annie, with her friends back in Oxford, progress. Thanks so much Debby!
Both Felicity and Keith Penrose are very likeable individuals and one senses the underlying affinity they feel 'should' go somewhere! However being genuinely honourable i think it'd be wildly out of character for them to do anything that'd involve cheating and cheapening of their friendship. This makes the speculation all the more tantalising! Will something have to happen to Keith's wife to 'free' him or will Felicity find romance coming from a different direction? Somehow I reckon she and Keith are destined to be a couple, however. I guess it's a testimony to the quiet quality of Debby's writing that such fictional relationships seem so convincingly real!! Apart from all that, of course I am itching to see what further Cornish exploits Felicity and Keith get entangled in and what corners of Cornwall we get to visit next!!
Roll on Number Five..and I haven't even read No4 yet!
Thank you. Debby....hope I can find the other books in the USA.
Maureen
You'd think a heroine given to transfixing moments of 'second sight' might be rather a fey lady but actually Felicity is very much a modern woman and she has to learn fast and adjust to all sorts of emotional and physical challenges and does so with real warmth, resilience and spirit. None of the characters in the series is without depth and the stories are splendidly intriguing.
The stories all are marked by a delightful warmth and humanity, the poignancy and sensitivity, along with lots of gentle joys, counterpointing the tragedies of murders and hatreds.
Furthermore if you like Cornwall, particularly Penwith, Mrs Fowler's sense of place and atmosphere is the next best thing to being there in person! Her descriptions make me quite wistful for summer/autumn days spent in Penzance and St Ives and the whole penninsula! You can practically hear the waves crashing off the north Penwith cliffs or feel the sun beating down on a sun kissed St Ives harbour!
Really, this writing should enjoy a far wider readership and though I respect enormously Truran Books for publishing it I am astonished one of 'bigger boys'of the publishing industry haven't snapped the series up! I've now happily got all three in our Waterstone's Glasgow shelves and Recommending them like mad.
If you like the likes of Ann Granger or Caroline Graham, just try Debby Fowler's Felicity Paradise- the books simply will refuse to let you put them down!
Marks out of ten=full ten!!
I discovered St Ives 3 years ago and absolutely love it. It is my spiritual home. Reading the books with the mentions of all the places I know in the town makes me feel closer. I live in East Anglia and only get down to St Ives twice a year.
The books are so well written. Cant put them down once I start reading. Thank you
I have -of course- enjoyed both the books. Their Cornish settings give them a special appeal to a Cornwall dweller.
Dear Debbie,
Thank you for two brilliant books. I love St.Ives and have been holidaying there since 1965; but I've only just dicovered Oxford since my wife attends medical courses there. I read the first book in July and it was odd, staying in North Oxford,and having just eaten at the pancake restaurant in North Parade to go back to the hotel and read about Felicity and Gilla eating in that same restaurant. The next day I visited Blenheim and, sitting with a coffee, unable to put the book down, was reading about Gilla's shop in nearby Woodstock ! Indeed so un-put-downable was the book that I ended up on a seat outside the changing room in the Oxford branch of Next making my wife try on lots more clothes so I could finish the story ! And I did ! The second book is even better. Your description of St.Ives out of season is beautiful, the characters so well drawn. I can't wait for the next one. I work for the BBC and my thought too was that they would make excellent television. I hope that somebdy is approaching the head of drama with that thought in mind.
Two excellent books can not wait till the 3rd.
Sould be made into a TV series!