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A wonderfully warm and witty novel from one of our favourite women’s fiction stars. We defy you not to love this.

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With a heroine that you root for this is a sweet read with real heart and soul.

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It’s Friday! Happy Friday! ~ This week has been ace but it’s also felt very long, so I’m looking forward to lots of reading and films and hopefully deck time over the weekend - though I think tomorrow is meant to be all about the ⛈. (I love a good thunderstorm though, so I’m not complaining). ~ On Wednesday evening we went up to Titchwell RSPB reserve for a walk and to sign copies of my book, which they’re stocking, and then we had a drink sitting outside The Hoste, before heading off to find fish and chips. ~ The Hoste is one of my favourite-Norfolk-places-that-I’d-never-been-to, and I will definitely be going back. It was so lovely and peaceful sitting outside, watching the world go by, and their menu looks delicious! 🥗 ~ What are your plans for this sunny/thundery/who knows what the weather will be? weekend? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ #authorgram #authorlife #authorlifestyle #writergram #writerlife #writersoﬁg #authorsofig #norfolklife #norfolklifestyle #burnhammarket #thehoste #publife #writerslifestyle #summerevening #summerevenings #bookishlife #bookishlifestyle #norfolkcounty #norfolkgirl #norfolksummer #friyay #friyay #fridayfeelings #fridaythoughts

One of the BEST author moments ever is getting to hold and stroke a copy of your physical book for the first time, and also have a cry because when being published was just a distant dream, I used to run my hands over the embossed covers of the books on the tables in Waterstones, and think: “I want an embossed cover.” ~ Well, that day has come, and it feels pretty bloody amazing! 🤩 ~ Here is the finished paperback of The Cornish Cream Tea Bus in all its beautiful, embossed glory. 😍 ~ Little videos of the paperback in more detail on my stories if anyone fancies watching me being an idiot. 🤗 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ #thecornishcreamteabus #authorlife #authorlifestyle #authorgram #instaauthor #igauthor #authorsofinstagram #writersoﬁg #writersofinstagram #writerscommunity #writergram #writersgram #romancestagram #romancestagramfam #amwritingromance #writerlife #writerslifestyle #newbooks #newbookstagram #prettybooks #prettybook #summerread #summerreads #cressidamclaughlin #igwriter #romancewriter #romancewriters #instawriter #instawriterscommunity #cornwalllife

I thought in the run up to publication of the full Cornish Cream Tea Bus, I’d share some of the inspiration behind it. 💭 ~ Here is Cape Cornwall. 💙 ~ This is one of my favourite places in Cornwall, and one that has made it into a scene in #thecornishcreamteabus. ~ The views of sky and sea from the top of the cape are breathtaking, worth it even when you’re scared of heights like I am - and believe me, the walk up to the old mine chimney is pretty scary for height-wusses like me. 😶 ~ It’s part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, and the rocks you can see in the sea are called the Brisons, and are the site of lots of shipwrecks new over the years. 🚢 ~ It is impossible to come here and not feel inspired and alive. Everything is so HUGE - the sea, the sky, the waves. It’s a properly magnificent place, romantic and dramatic and perfect book inspiration. It’s well worth a visit if you go to Cornwall. 🌅 ~ Have posted a pic of my scared-face on top of the cape in my stories. 😵 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ #romancestagram #authorinspiration #writerinspiration #bookinspiration #bookchat #capecornwall #cornwallcoast #cornishcoast #cornishviews #cornwallview #cornishlife #cornwalllife #authorgram #writergram #writersgram #igauthor #igwriter #igwriters #ukwriter #ukauthor #amwritingfiction #amwritingromance #amwriting #scenes #bigsky #seaview #seaviews #skyviews #favouriteplaces

The Mysterious Lord Millcroft by Virginia Heath 💜💜💜💜💜 ~ I think I downloaded this because quite a few friends on my daily Goodreads email had raved about it. (I am discovering that Goodreads emails are not helping me reduce my TBR pile 🤷🏼‍♀️). ~ Anyway, I am SO GLAD I bought it. It is epic. Regency Romance (which we all know by now I am rather a fan of) PLUS spying. Romance and seduction and danger and subterfuge and intrigue all in one, brilliant book. 📖 ~ Plus the two main characters, Clarissa and Seb, are so well-drawn, and I loved that they were both properly flawed, and that their insecurities (and society’s expectations to a large extent) held them back in their quests for happiness. 💕 ~ The way they slowly came to realise their growing feelings for one another was tantalisingly, brilliantly drawn out. Add in some misunderstandings and a spying plot, and this was a tense, breathless and beautifully romantic read. ♥️ ~ VERY happy there are three more books in the series. Hurrah, hullah and huzzah! 📚 ~ 🌟 What was the last book that had you completely captivated? 🌟

Today, I am indulging in the sheer bliss of watching the cricket World Cup final between England and New Zealand in my living room. This is usually a joy reserved for Mum and Dad’s house, where my Dad’s Sky Sports package is one of his best-loved things, but because England have made the final Sky has partnered with Channel 4 to show us all the game live. 🏏🎉 . I spent a lot of my teenage years watching cricket, either at Lords or the Oval, with my best friend Kate. We would skive off our GCSE and A-level revision to go and watch county games in the sunshine. We’d chat to the players as they sat on their balconies, and Kate would always cringe when I asked for their autographs. 🖊 . We were there for the game when Surrey won the county championship in 1999, and after it was over I asked Adam Hollioake if I could have his shirt - the ACTUAL shirt off his back (what was I thinking?!) and he just took it off and gave it to me. I still have it, obviously. 😬😍 . When Ben Hollioake was so tragically killed in a car crash a couple of years later, I sobbed and sobbed and came back to London from university to take flowers to the Oval. 💐 . The last time I watched live cricket was ten years ago (wah) when I went with Dad and David to Lords to watch Middlesex in a county match. Here is the media centre under a cloudy, August sky on that day, a whole decade ago. 🌥 . I can’t believe it has been so long, or the huge waves of nostalgia that writing this post has released. 🥺 . I love cricket. Cricket is amazing. Come on England, please win today. 🙏🏻🏏

Last night @themachmonkey and I went to an event at @jarroldnorwich to hear the wonderful David Nicholls talk about, and read from, his new book Sweet Sorrow. 📖 . It was SUCH a good event. David was interviewed brilliantly by @hughespeg, and was funny, inspirational and wise. His readings made me want to start Sweet Sorrow immediately - one of them almost made me cry, it was so tender and true. 💕 . It was such a privilege to hear him talk, and to meet him afterwards, and here is a photo of a David, a Cress, and a David, which shows just how happy I was about the whole thing. 😂 . Jarrolds put on such great bookish events, and I still cannot believe I’m having my book launch there in a month’s time! Check out my stories for the amazing window display that Jarrold have put up for it. 📚🥂 . Thank you to the lovely Holly Ainley for taking this fab photo! 🙌🏼

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