A Pretty Beach Wish by Polly Babbington (funny books to read txt) 📕

and two champagne flutes tied with white bows sat on the little ledge in front of the main bench seat.

‘Wow, we get champagne as well? This is some surprise, Juliette. Now I realise why you didn’t want champagne in the Pavillion,’ Luke said taking a seat at the front. Juliette followed in behind Luke and looked around. It was delightful and just as she had planned. Gary had done a great job of stringing the lights all the way across the top of the carriage. And there was still one more surprise to go when they got to the top.

‘Okay. Let’s get you two going and up to the top of this cliff,’ Gary said as Juliette sat down next to Luke and the gate clunked as Gary pushed it back and shut the carriage door.

Juliette craned her neck out of the window at the front and looked up at the track laid on the steep rock cliff as they saw Gary pull a huge, old-fashioned brass lever, and heard an accompanying whining sound as the carriage slowly began to move up the track. The low rumbling and clattering noise they always heard at Daisy’s now sounded so much louder right there in the carriage.

The lift creaked and clanked up the cliff and Luke and Juliette looked out over Pretty Beach as the magnificent view slowly came into sight. The train made its way steadily up and eventually approached the double doors at the top. As it got closer to the summit, Luke got up, but Juliette didn’t move. Luke picked up the champagne bucket and glasses assuming that they were going to walk out onto the top of the cliff, and he held his hand out to help Juliette up. The carriage had nearly arrived at the top and as they looked out they were greeted by the spectacular view over the sea and the Pretty Beach lighthouse beyond.

‘You need some help up?’ Luke asked as Juliette stared out the window lost in thought.

‘No Luke, I don’t need any help at all.’

‘Come on then. I think that’s it. We’re at the top.’

‘I’m just going to stay here for a bit, look out over the view for a bit longer. It’s so amazing!’

‘Okay... I thought we were going to sit up on the grass on the cliff and watch the lights all over Pretty Beach.’

‘We are, Luke. There’s just one more thing,’ Juliette said as the carriage clunked and banged and finally stopped with a judder at the top.

‘What is it? Juliette you’re really acting strange again. Have you been doing something suspicious?’ Luke asked laughing and followed Juliette’s gaze through the door to the waiting room at the top of the cliff.

Luke dropped the ice bucket on the floor when he saw a huge blackboard, and written at the top of it in beautiful calligraphic writing it read...

Luke.

You've made me so happy since I met you that day in the car park in Newport Reef.

This evening at the top of the cliff in Pretty Beach I’m asking you if you’d like to make these happy times go on forever?

Luke Burnette, I would very much like to be your wife.

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The Boat House Pretty Beach

Summer Weddings at Pretty Beach

Winter at Pretty Beach

A Pretty Beach Christmas

A Pretty Beach Dream

A Pretty Beach Wish

Secret Evenings in Pretty Beach

Secret Evenings in Pretty Beach

If you’ve loved getting lost in the gorgeous world of Pretty Beach you might just want to settle down with a cup of tea ready for the next instalment from the sparkly little town by the sea as we meet Strawberry Hill resident Lottie Cloudberry.

The sun is shining, Lottie’s beautiful garden is beginning to come to life and she stumbles upon an idea for a new business which means she might possibly be able to stay in Pretty Beach and keep her old house by the sea.

As life gets busy for Lottie, her new business starts to boom and as her beautiful garden is flourishing Lottie thinks there’s no room left in her life for anything else.

But just when she’s least expecting it along comes dashing Connor Bally, businessman extraordinaire, and Lottie Cloudberry is swept off her feet in more ways than one.

Is it too late for Lottie Cloudberry to fall head over heels in love again or will Connor Bally change all her thoughts of a life on her own?

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If you love a fabulous love story, a gorgeous old tumbledown Victorian house by the sea, all the lovely bits and pieces of Pretty Beach, and funny romcoms you’ll love the next part in the Pretty Beach story.

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‘Utterly addictive, absorbing and does the trick to get you lost in a whole, new delightful world.’