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Somewhere Beyond the Sea Kindle Edition

by Miranda Dickinson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
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Miranda Dickinson's Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a sparkling tale of love, life and finding magic where you least expect it.

Selected as one of Heat magazine's Hot Books - five stars.

Can you fall in love with someone before you’ve even met?

Seren MacArthur is living a life she never intended. Trying to save the Cornish seaside business her late father built – while grieving for his loss – she has put her own dreams on hold and is struggling. Until she discovers a half-finished seaglass star on her favourite beach during an early morning walk. When she completes the star, she sets into motion a chain of events that will steal her heart and challenge everything she believes.

Jack Dixon is trying to secure a better life for daughter Nessie and himself. Left a widower and homeless when his wife died, he’s just about keeping their heads above water. Finding seaglass stars completed on Gwithian beach is a bright spark that slowly rekindles his hope.

Seren and Jack are searching for their missing pieces. But when they meet in real life, it’s on the opposing sides of a battle. Jack is managing the redevelopment of a local landmark, and Seren is leading the community campaign to save it.

Both have reason to fight – Seren for the cause her father believed in, Jack for his livelihood. But only one can win. With so much at stake, will they ever find what they are really looking for?

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Miranda Dickinson has always had a head full of stories. She is the author of Fairytale of New York, Welcome to My World, It Started With a Kiss, When I Fall in Love, Take A Look At Me Now, I'll Take New York, A Parcel for Anna Browne, and Searching for a Silver Lining.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B078GR54JB
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pan; Main Market edition (June 14, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 14, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 918 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 497 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1447276094
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 ratings

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Miranda Dickinson

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Miranda Dickinson has always had a head full of stories. Born in Wolverhampton, in The Black Country, West Midlands, she grew up in Kingswinford and dreamed of one day writing a book that would reach the heady heights of Kingswinford Library... Her first novel, Fairytale of New York (2009) was discovered on Authonomy.com - HarperCollins' site for unpublished authors. Within three weeks of its release, Fairytale of New York had entered the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestsellers List, where it remained for five weeks - making it the world's first crowd-sourced bestseller. The novel was also shortlisted for the RNA's Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2010 at the Pure Passion Awards.

Miranda is a six-times Sunday Times Bestseller, with Fairytale of New York, Welcome to My World, It Started With a Kiss, When I Fall in Love, Take a Look at Me Now, I'll Take New York, A Parcel for Anna Browne and Searching for a Silver Lining, a Christmas novella, Christmas in St Ives, is a festive treat and prequel to her ninth novel, Somewhere Beyond the Sea. The Day We Meet Again has won critical acclaim and is much loved by readers, most recently publishing in the US and Canada, taking her words Stateside for the first time.

Miranda is an international bestseller in four countries and her books have been translated into sixteen languages. To date, she has sold one million books worldwide. Her latest book is Our Story, out now.

Miranda is the founder of WriteFoxy - resources, vlogs and inspiration writing days for writers of all ages and abilities. Her popular vlogs feature her own publishing journey for each new novel, together with advice for authors and lots and lots of hats!

Miranda lives in Dudley with her husband, Bob and daughter, Flo. She is also a singer-songwriter and recently released her first solo album, About Time.

Follow Miranda's vlog at www.youtube.com/mirandawurdy and visit her website: miranda-dickinson.com

You can also follow Miranda on Twitter @wurdsmyth, on Instagram @wurdsmyth and on Facebook: MirandaDickinsonAuthor

Photo copyright 2011 Bobwhite Photography

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CJ @WonderfulWellyNZ
5.0 out of 5 stars A sweet and loving book
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2018
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I liked everything about this book. I just couldn't put it down. I loved that you get both the characters perspectives. I have to say I would love to travel to Cornwall. It sounds amazing. For some reason many of the books, I read, seem to be set in this area. This book is full of emotion and so charming. Thank You Miranda for another great read. I have each and every one of your books and adore them all.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great summer read
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2018
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Loved loved this book... the way the author describe the beautiful locations of this book, it made this Texas girl do some research.
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KSheldon
4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2019
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Really enjoyed this book about Seren and Jack .... their lives, loves, and losses. This is a very well put together story of two lives (plus Jack's daughter) brought together because of family losses and the sea and what it has to offer.
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Alba in Bookland
5.0 out of 5 stars Magical
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2018
Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a gorgeous story about love, family and hope. But it's also a very real portrayal of loss and grief. Both main characters, Seren and Jack, have lost someone and are trying to re-build their lives again. It's impossible not to warm up to such good-hearted and inspiring characters and soon you find yourself rooting for them and sharing both their joys and disappointments.

I fell a bit in love with Jack myself. He was such a fantastic dad to Nessie. You could tell his world orbited around this little girl and he managed to make every little thing magical for her. I enjoyed immensely following them to the beach, while they built their unfinished sea glass stars for the mermaids.

This story really reminded me how to appreciate the little things and the joy they bring. For Seren, finding those unfinished stars gave her hope in a very dark moment of her life. In fact, every time I pick a book by Miranda Dickinson I end up feeling happier and really hopeful about the future.

I really liked how the story unfolded and the direction it took. It was a real treat to see these characters and their families and friends touched by the magic of this story. Definitely a highly recommended story to enjoy this summer. Small warning, I'm pretty sure you'll want to book a holiday in St Ives as soon as you've finished reading it!
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Zoe (whatsbetterthanbooks)
5.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing, encouraging, and delightfully affecting!
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2018
Somewhere Beyond the Sea is an astute, heartwarming tale that sweeps you away to the idyllic, seaside town of St Ives and into the lives of Seren, a young woman grieving the loss of her father and struggling to save the business he left behind, and Jack, a single, unemployed father focused on raising his seven-year-old daughter and providing her with love, attention, and security.

The prose is winsome and polished. The characters are authentic, optimistic, and engaging. And the plot told from alternating perspectives is an alluring tale about loss, life, love, heartache, grit, hope, family, friendship, community, sand, sea, self-discovery, beautiful jewelry, moving on, and finding the one.

Overall, Somewhere Beyond the Sea is an evocative, touching, romantic tale by Dickinson that reminds us that sometimes it’s the little things that mean the most and magic can truly be found everywhere.
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Melody
3.0 out of 5 stars It was ok
Reviewed in Italy on November 30, 2020
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The plot was good, but I would have liked more interaction between the two protagonists. They met in the half of the book and fell in love too soon.
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breizh
5.0 out of 5 stars Une histoire très mignonne
Reviewed in France on January 18, 2020
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Une histoire agréable, avec St-Ives en toile de fond. Seren et Jack doivent tous les deux continuer d'avancer dans la vie suite à des blessures personnelles. Elle, en faisant le deuil de son père, et en se battant pour ce en quoi il croyait. Et lui, pour élever sa fille, suite au décès de son épouse. Mais c'était un mariage sans amour. Chacun se bat pour ses croyances, ses idéaux, et sa famille. Petit à petit, ils vont apprendre à se connaître... La toile de fond avec la plage, l'océan et les étoiles en verres apportent un charme tout particulier à l'intrigue.
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Sharon
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this from start to finish
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 2, 2018
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Over the years Miranda Dickinson has become one of my go-to authors whose books I will pick up to read without even reading the blurb as I know that when I read one of her books I will find characters I will fall in love with and stories full of heart. And Somewhere Beyond the Sea is no different as we meet Seren and Jack, two strangers who have never met but have more in common than they can ever imagine.

I instantly knew that this was a story that was going to be one that I would fall in love with from the opening chapter when we first meet Seren as she's taking a walk with her dog on a deserted beach and discovers the incomplete seaglass star that Jack and his seven year old daughter Nessie didn't manage to complete that she decides to finish. I found myself like Seren and Jack drawn in wanting to discover the next star as the stars got more elaborate with notes and gifts being left, to see the will they/won't they ever find out who the other star maker is play out. Both Jack and Seren seemed to get a lift from the making of the stars as both had outside pressures that they were dealing with and those few moments of escapism on the beach seem to give them a little hope.

The story is told in alternate chapters from Seren and Jack so you really get to see both sides of the cat and mouse game that is played, first with the building and completing of the stars on the beach and then on the opposing sides of a community debate regarding the planned proposal to demolish and redevlop a local landmark that once belonged to Elinor Crane, a renowned astronomist. Both Seren and Jack are dealing with grief and the consequences of losing someone from their lives, Seren has taken on the burden of carrying on her father's struggling business whereas Jack has had to sell his house and relocate following the sudden death of his wife leaving him to bring up Nessie on his own.

The campaign to save the local Parsonage was her father's idea and one that the locals have asked Seren to continue with the campaign, whereas for Jack it's an opportunity for a paid job to enable him to provide for Nessie. Although his boss is known for his knock em up properties, Jack has a reputation for using locally-sourced natural materials so he hopes to be able to do justice to the redevelopment that will respect the heritage of the property.

Despite Cornwall only being a couple of hours away from where I live I have only ever been there once, and never to the St. Ives area, but the descriptive writing within the pages of this book really gave me a sense of feel for the area, what it's like in the up and down seasons, and made me want to discover a seaglass star myself... I know that Seren and Jack are only characters in this book so I probably wouldn't find one but you never know.

This really was a magical, heart-warmer of a story, one that had me feeling all the feels as I became a cheerleader for Seren and Jack. It's a story of love, hope and dreams that makes it the perfect Summer read so make sure you pick up a copy, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Charming read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 1, 2023
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Wonderful setting and a clever idea. Well written and absorbing.
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Sue Alexander
4.0 out of 5 stars A feel good romance
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2019
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Set in the St. Ives area of Cornwall, which will be familiar to many readers, this is a pleasant novel with many misunderstandings to extend the guy meets girl and they fall in love story.
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