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Beneath the Apple Blossom: A moving story of infertility, love, loss and hope Kindle Edition

by Kate Frost (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 527 ratings
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Four women. One affair. Four lives entwined.

All Pippa’s ever wanted is marriage and kids, but at thirty-four and about to embark on IVF, her dream of having a family is far from certain. Her younger sister Georgie has the opposite problem, juggling her career, her lover, a young daughter and a husband who wants baby number two.

Pippa’s best friend Sienna has a successful career in the film world, and despite her boyfriend pressurising her to settle down, a baby is the last thing she wants. Happily married Connie shares the trauma of fertility treatment with Pippa, but underestimates the impact being unable to conceive will have on her and her marriage.

As their lives collide in a way they could never have predicted, will any of them find lasting happiness?
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"What I love about this story is that it is very real. Life isn't all about living happily ever after and this book stays achingly true to that. There's plenty of conflict and an unexpected twist to make you emotionally invested. These four women become connected in many ways. Some tragic, some hopeful and some very unexpected. With relationships fracturing, their journeys become a tangled web as they fight for what they need. Beautiful and poignant!" - author, Tracey Rogers.
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If you enjoy Beneath the Apple Blossom, then you can continue Connie's story in The Baobab Beach Retreat, which is the start of a separate A Romantic Escape series of standalone romances set in beautiful places.

INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR

Q. What makes this book special?
A. Beneath the Apple Blossom is told from the point of view of four women all struggling with something - infertility, family life or motherhood (or indeed not wanting to be pregnant or have a baby). It's a book that many women (and men) will be able to relate to one way or another.

Q. Can you sum up Beneath the Apple Blossom and why readers should give it a try?
A. It's an emotional read about hope and loss, friendship and betrayal, that is rooted in reality - the emotions are true to life and ones that so many women experience throughout their lives. It's not an easy read and the book deals with serious subjects such as infertility, IVF, pregnancy and miscarriage, yet it's also about hope, friendship, sisterhood, family life and motherhood.
As author Tracey Rogers summed up in her review of the book: "What I love about this story is that it is very real. Life isn't all about living happily ever after and this book stays achingly true to that. There's plenty of conflict and an unexpected twist to make you emotionally invested. These four women become connected in many ways. Some tragic, some hopeful and some very unexpected. With relationships fracturing, their journeys become a tangled web as they fight for what they need. Beautiful and poignant!"

Q. Have you written any other women's fiction books?
A. Yes, my debut novel, The Butterfly Storm and the first in The Butterfly Storm series is a love story set in Greece and north Norfolk in the UK. Its sequel, The Birdsong Promise, is set on the Greek island of Cephalonia.
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"The book moves along and a good pace and the writing is superb. Each of the characters is interesting, complex and although at times the reader may not agree with their actions, we become very emotionally invested in the outcomes for each. A great book and right up there on my highly recommended list!" - JB Johnston, Brook Cottage Books. "A brave and engrossing read on an important topic about which too little is written." - Debbie Young, author. "What I love about this story is that it is very real. Life isn't all about living happily ever after and this book stays achingly true to that. There's plenty of conflict and an unexpected twist to make you emotionally invested. These four women become connected in many ways. Some tragic, some hopeful and some very unexpected. With relationships fracturing, their journeys become a tangled web as they fight for what they need. Beautiful and poignant!" - author, Tracey Rogers. "This has been one of the most refreshing books I have read this year for it's subject and depth of feeling and knowledge. It's really touched me and I hope that you will all buy it, read it and be as moved as I was." - The Book Addicted Housewife. "Following the lives of four different families that intertwine, intermingle and influence each other, Beneath the Apple Blossom by Kate Frost is the story of perseverance, hope, and finding strength in the heart of darkness and disappointment...This story was incredibly powerful, it was real and it is a lot of women's lives. I loved it so much, and wish that everyone would read it." - Kerrie, Comfy Reading.

About the Author

Kate Frost has had short fiction and articles published in The London Magazine, New Welsh Review and QWF amongst others. She has a MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University where she has also taught lifewriting to Creative Writing undergraduates. Her first novel, The Butterfly Storm, was published as an ebook in 2013. Kate lives in Bristol with her husband, young son and their dog.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01JGK93BQ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lemon Tree Press (July 31, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 31, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2479 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 318 pages
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Kate Frost is the author of romantic escape novels including bestsellers The Greek Heart, The Baobab Beach Retreat and The Amsterdam Affair, plus One Greek Summer, An Italian Dream, An Island in the Sun, One Winter's Night and A Greek Island Escape published by award-winning Boldwood. They're uplifting, heartwarming stories of love, romance, hope, new beginnings and second chances featuring different characters in beautiful locations. She's also the author of character-driven women's fiction (The Butterfly Storm series) and Time Shifters, a middle grade time travel adventure trilogy. One Winter's Night has been shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2024.

Kate is the Director of Storytale Festival, a book festival for children and teens she co-founded in Bristol in 2019. She has a MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University where she also taught lifewriting to Creative Writing undergraduates.

Kate has wanted to be an author ever since she wrote her first novel during the long months she spent off school following open heart surgery when she was seven. Having previously worked in a cinema, a bookshop, at NHS Direct and as a Supporting Artist in film and TV, she feels incredibly lucky to now spend her days writing and being immersed in books. Kate lives in the UK with her husband and son.

Find Kate on social media @katefrostauthor

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Martha Graham-Waldon
5.0 out of 5 stars Poignant and Real
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018
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In Beneath the Apple Blossom, Kate Frost has woven a tale of women's lives interconnected by fertility and relationship struggles. It is real and poignant throughout, including happy as well as unhappy endings for the characters. It was a pleasure to read and I look forward to enjoying more of her novels.
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greg dixon
4.0 out of 5 stars Beneath the Apple blossom
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2017
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A good read for people who are in to the series recommend highly can't wait for the next one of the series a really enjoyable read but quick shaping up to be a enjoyable series must read the next one of the series some stories are better than others but enjoyable shaping up to be a enjoyable read
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Joan
5.0 out of 5 stars Heartwarming !
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2016
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This was a truly great story of loss and how different people handle the different things that life throws at you. I experienced 3 miscarriages before I was able to have my 2nd daughter and this is so how it felt to me! Great telling of the hurt and emptiness one feels. Wonderful read!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good read!!!
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2017
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But a bit confusing at times with with all the characters and problems to deal with. Makes you wonder if there is such a thing as truth. Didn't find much of that.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Beneath the app!le blossom
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2017
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Very good book , with the ups and down of females wanting children and females not wanting children. Also sad
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4.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding read
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2017
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This book was very heart felt. Happy, sad and everything in between with every chapter and read into the lives of these 4 women it brought you to a closer sense of being appreciative of what you have. I loved it.
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Gigi
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2018
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Kate Frost makes feel like you've known these women for years and rooting for them. Can't wait to read the 2nd book in the series!
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sawandquilt
5.0 out of 5 stars Great characters
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2017
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Each character in this book was very well written. I really enjoyed the separate stories and how they were intrwoven
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CAF62
5.0 out of 5 stars A sincere and realistic account of different aspects of becoming, or not, a mother
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2021
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A painful read if you have experienced some of the heart wrenching situations described in this book. I shared a lot of Connie's experiences. Even 25 years after giving up any hope of having children, and having found a new tranquility and contentment in life without children, this was a difficult book to read. The thought processes and emotions of the ladies dealing with infertility, medical interventions and pregnancy loss rang very true to me. The way the lives of the four ladies is intertwined is easy to follow, and you soon become engrossed in the four separate dramas which interconnect with each other. Despite the sadnesses depicted in the stories, there is hope and resolution at the end of it all.
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Emily Wrayburn
4.0 out of 5 stars Addictive read
Reviewed in Australia on July 3, 2017
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The experiences depicted in this book are worlds away from any experience I have had, and worlds away from what I usually read, and yet I found myself unable to put it down (I’m starting this review at 12:54am after staying up to finish it, because I’m still thinking about it, and wide awake).

Beneath the Apple Blossom depicts the lives of four women with four very different experiences of motherhood and the journey towards it. Pippa and Connie meet online through a forum for women undergoing IVF and bond through the ups and downs of treatment. Georgie feels she had her first child too young, and isn’t ready for the second one her husband clearly wants. And Sienna has her heart set on never having kids, when her life is thrown into turmoil…

Frost presents these four women and their stories without any judgement, leaving the reader to form their own opinions. I think this is an advantage of the novel, as seeing the way things panned out and the way the characters reacted to events and to each other was what made me want to keep reading. I didn’t always agree with the choices the characters made, but I couldn’t really fault any of them for making them (well, maybe sometimes, but only a bit).

The only real qualm I had with the novel was that sometimes the characters’ thoughts got a bit repetitive. While I can appreciate that women going through the sorts of things that these characters are would have quite cyclical thoughts, as a reader, I sometimes found that returning to the same “Why did it have to happen this way? What am I going to do now?” trains of thought chapter after chapter became a bit stale.

I definitely recommend this book, even if motherhood and constant talk of babies isn’t really your thing (it’s not mine). This gives insight into the struggles all sorts of women go through, as well as identifying those “what not to do” moments for the rest of us (I already knew this, but for anyone else, don’t say “You can always adopt”, no matter how good your intentions are by it). After giving five stars to Kate’s debut novel, The Butterfly Storm, a few years ago, I was fairly confident I would enjoy this one, and she does not disappoint
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tina pantling
4.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2017
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I look in to people's lives with a bit of a twist here and there and not just happy endings
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Heather B
5.0 out of 5 stars Intricate and Very Human
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2020
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I thoroughly enjoyed this intricate and very human novel. Using her four female characters to tell their stories, Kate Frost realistically examines some of the issues at the core of being a woman in the modern world. Whatever the reader’s own desires and experiences, it’s easy to relate to each of the women in their differing situations. Ms Frost deals sensitively and believably with the issues of having children or not, infertility, miscarriage, and the women’s relationships with the men in their lives. This is a well-written, thought-provoking novel with depth, and one that will stay with me for a while.
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Jane Ramsell
5.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable, eye-opening read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2020
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As a happily childfree person through choice, I found this book really fascinating and compelling - seeing the varying viewpoints of the four main characters and how they developed.

I adore Kate's beautiful, descriptive writing style and this didn't disappoint on that front either. I found myself really caring about the characters and willing them to get good news, from whatever angle they approached fertility.

A thoroughly enjoyable book ❤️
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