(not final cover; courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia)
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In Wynbridge, the scent of autumn is on the breeze and love is in the air…Clemmie Bennett has been renovating beautiful Rowan Cottage on the outskirts of the small town of Wynbridge, for eighteen months following a very public heartbreak back in her childhood hometown. The popular Instagram influencer, lost her husband, sold their home, and has been cosied up the Fens and living a very private life, but now she feels it’s time for a change.
A chance encounter with co-owner of The Cherry Tree Café, the bubbly Lizzie Dixon, pulls her into organizing Wynbridge’s first-ever Autumn Festival, and her once quiet life is soon a distant memory. With the whole town rallying behind the event, she discovers a new sense of purpose.
And when local vet Ash falls hard for Clemmie, she begins to wonder if she’s ready to move even further on from her past and fall in love again (courtesy Heidi Swain)
For reasons that escape me, I resisted diving into rom com novels for the longest time.
It wasn’t literary snobbery; I read widely and eclectically and happily bounce from intense drama to frothy fantasy to soap operatic sci-fi, a lover of many genres as long as there’s a damn good story bundled up in it.
And I watched rom coms at the cinema all the time so why the lag in diving in novelistic rom coms?
No idea, but I’m glad they have become a part of my prodigious reading habits because when you have authors as good as Heidi Swain writing, it’s well and truly worth cracking open a book that offers escape, romantic hope and a burst of positivity in sometimes bleak days.
Excitingly Swain has a new book – two in fact with The Holiday Escape due in April – out this year which means that along with a slew of other wonderful authors ensures my year will get a big romantic shot in the arm reading-wise and leaving me delightfully happy and buoyant, and honestly, who doesn’t want that?
All Wrapped Up publishes 11 September 2025.