{"title":"Books by Nicola May","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781529346480","title":"Starry Skies in Ferry Lane Market","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Two in b\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eestselling sensation Nicola May's gorgeous new series - c\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eatch up with Book One, WELCOME TO FERRY LANE MARKET, now!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Full of heart, hope, friendship, family and laughter, and a plot with a mystery gagging to be solved' \u003c\/b\u003eKim Nash on \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Ferry Lane Market\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Star Bligh got pregnant at the age of sixteen, she thought her life was over. Now thirty-three, mother to Skye and owner of the successful jewellery stall in Ferry Lane Market in Hartmouth, Cornwall, she wouldn't change a thing about it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell, maybe one. 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But she couldn't  bring herself to abandon her emotionally delicate single father, and has worked on Ferry Lane Market's flower stall ever since leaving school.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen her good-for-nothing boyfriend cheats on her and steals her life savings, she finally dumps him and rents out her spare room as an Airbnb. Gossip flies around the town as Kara welcomes a series of foreign guests to her flat overlooking the estuary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen an anonymous postcard arrives, along with a plane ticket to New York. 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