Goodbye Sweetheart

Unexpected Return to Seaview

When Anna Collins steps off the late-summer ferry in the sleepy coastal town of Seaview, she expects familiar faces and quiet streets—but not the pulse of old secrets waiting to greet her. Abandoned twenty years ago after a heartbreak that shattered her family, Anna has returned to sell her childhood home. Instead, she finds a community tangled in whispered rumors, her own name resurfacing in conversations she never thought she’d hear again. Clare Dowling weaves a tale of homecoming and heartache, where every corner of the seaside lanes holds the promise of reconciliation—or the threat of fresh wounds.

Echoes of Betrayal and Forgiveness

Across the harbor, her first love, Tom Bennett, runs the town’s struggling bookshop with an easy smile that conceals a lifetime of disappointment. Their reunion is fragile, charged with unspoken apologies and the weight of choices made in youthful folly. As Anna sorts through dusty letters and fading photographs hidden in her grandmother’s attic, she uncovers the truth behind her mother’s sudden disappearance—and the lies that have kept her family apart. Lilian Harry’s prose captures the complexity of forgiveness: how betrayal can bind us as tightly as love, and how the strength to forgive often springs from the most unexpected places.

Storm of Redemption

When a fierce autumn gale threatens to isolate Seaview from the mainland, Anna and Tom find themselves on the cliff’s edge—literally and figuratively. With rising tides echoing the turmoil in their hearts, they must decide whether to cling to old resentments or risk everything on a fragile trust. Tension crackles in every dialogue, and the atmospheric setting—salt-lashed docks, candlelit parlors, and windswept dunes—becomes a vivid character in its own right. In the roaring climax, Harry delivers an ending both cathartic and bittersweet, proving that even the deepest wounds can mend when we confront our past with courage.

Author’s Description

Lilian Harry is an acclaimed storyteller whose novels explore the intersections of memory, family, and the redemptive power of love. A former photojournalist, she now lives in Dorset with her husband and two children, where she continues to illuminate the human heart with lyrical precision.