Welcome to the Cornish Country Hospital is the first installment in Jo Bartlett’s new women’s fiction series.

Welcome to the Cornish Country Hospital by Jo Bartlett

Genre/Categories/Setting: Comtemporary Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Romance, Family Secrets, Adoption, Cornwall

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My Summary of Welcome to the Cornish Country Hospital:

Thanks #NetGalley @BoldwoodBooks for a complimentary e ARC of #WelcomeToTheCornishCountryHospital upon my request. All opinions are my own.

Danni arrives in Cornwall hoping for a fresh start. She’s trying to forget the man she can never be with because he’s engaged to her best friend. Unexpectedly, this best friend and her fiance end up at the same hospital and she’s faced with the same impossible situation once again. As much as she loves her best friend, she wonders if she should move once more. Before she can make that decision, she becomes involved with a patient whom she helped rescue.

My Thoughts:

A New Series

Jo Barlett is a popular and prolific author whose stories are often set in Cornwall. I’ve only read the Cornish Midwife series. Fans of the author will be thrilled to hear that she’s beginning a new series. This one is set in a hospital.

The Trope

Falling for someone you can’t have is a trope that I associate with adlescents or young adults and not necessarily a mid-thirty something professional. In this respect, I felt a bit impatient with Danni, and those feelings escalated as I learned more about the character of the man she loves. I was impatient with her to move on from her emotional attachment to him and to be a better best friend.

Themes

Serious Grey’s Anatomy vibes here! Welcome to the Cornish Country Hospital includes themes of friendship, women supporting women, toxic relationships, family secrets, second chance romance, new beginnings, supportive family, and adoption. Lots of page-turning drama within these pages.

Content Consideration: toxic manipulative relationship, bus accident with medical trauma

Recommending Welcome to the Cornish Country Hospital

Fans of Jo Barlett will appreciate this strong beginning to a new series. And, yes, there are dogs! Readers who are looking for likable characters, page-turning drama, and substantial themes might want to join in on this series from the beginning.

Related: My review of A Change of Heart For the Cornish Midwife and Mistletoe and Magic for the Cornish Midwife.

My Rating:  3.5 Stars

Meet the Author of Welcome to the Cornish Country Hospital, Jo Bartlett

Jo Bartlett was born a stone’s throw from the English Channel and still lives near the sea in Kent, with her family, so close to the South Eastern edge of England that they’re very nearly French. It’s probably why so many of her books are set near the sea too. Jo has made up stories for as long as she can remember, but never really took it any further, until a catalyst called cancer gave her the impetus to follow her dreams.

Jo’s latest book, her 26th novel, Welcome to the Cornish Country Hospital, is out now and is the start of a brand new series from Boldwood Books. You can follow Jo on Twitter, Instagram, her author page on Facebook, or sign up to her newsletter – the details of which can be found on any of her social media accounts.

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QOTD:

Is this first installment of a new Jo Bartlett series on your TBR or have you read it?

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