Cathy Bramley has done it again with this real gem of a book.
Following three strong women through friendship and difficult times set in the wonderful location of Salcombe.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an ARC in return for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book my favourite of Cathy's so far but then I think that about all her books.

This one goes straight to the heart. There is so much love in this story.

I like how the story started and how it ended. The story started strong and just carried on all the main female characters where strong in their own lives but all 3 needed a bit of help along the way.
I'm so glad the 2 sisters made peace with their childhoods and each other.
I can't wait to buy this book it's so amazing

I’ve read lots of Cathy’s book which I’ve loved but unfortunately this wasn’t my favourite. Three women who over a summer bond through their secrets. Great exploration of grief through loss. Cathy always brings generations together and even if You don’t like characters you still appreciate her books.
Thanks to Cathy and her publisher. Thanks also to NetGalley.

I have to admit I'm love books that tell the stories of generations of families. In that brand new book by Cathy Bramley, we are introduced not only to Liz, but her goddauthers Skye and Clare as well as Clare's baby daughter, Ivy.

Set in Salcombe, the woman come together with one main goal in mind: to save Liz's cateering business. With some of them juggling family secrets with hidden jealousies, can they work together in their sisterhood in order to make sure the business survives? This is a gorgeous book that is all about escapism with the backdrop of the beautiful Salcombe.

Another fanastic book by Cathy, one that will want her fans wanting more and eagly awaiting her next book.

A Summer book set on the gorgeous Devon coast is always going to be high on my reading list especially when it’s by Cathy Bramley who is one of my favourite authors and this one did not disappoint. It’s a lovely story of three women who find that their lives are so much better with the others in it.

Set in Salcombe, this is the story of Liz, who is still suffering from grief at the loss of her best friend and business partner, and also Liz’s two goddaughters, Clare and Skye. Clare and Skye are half sisters and have a prickly relationship at best, both of them feeling that their father preferred the other.

The three women spend the Summer together as the sisters help Liz get her catering business back on its feet. As they do this, all three women build their relationships again.

I really enjoyed seeing how each of the characters grew and first started to face their problems and then deal with them over the course of this story. Cathy Bramley covers some serious themes including grief, alcohol dependency and single parenthood and handles them well. I loved all three of the women but especially Liz who has to break habits that she has had for forty years before she can really move on. I also found Clare incredibly easy to relate to. Her insistence on doing everything herself and not accepting any help was really well portrayed. The setting of Salcombe is beautifully described and even made me want to go and do yoga on the beach.
Thank you to Net Galley and the publishers Orion, for my ARC in exchange for my honest review.

As soon as I started reading The Sunrise Sisterhood I knew I was going to love it. It had warm, likeable characters (apart from Harriet) and a plot that flowed smoothly. It’s a tale of love, family, friendship and new beginnings and I devoured each page. It’s heartwarming and Judy a joy to read. Thank you to NetGalley, Orion Publishing Group and the author for the chance to review.

Plot: Liz invites her two goddaughters, Clare and Skye to spend the summer with her in Salcombe. Liz doesn't seem to be able to move on from losing her best friend and business partner, Jen. Clare is a single parent to her nearly one year old daughter, Ivy. Skye has returned from working in Uganda trying to work out what she wants to do with her life. While all under the same roof they have the summer that will change them forever.

Review: I absolutely loved this book and it kept me gripped me from beginning to end. I loved the characters and empathised with what they were all going through. It was a lovely uplifting storyline full of the day to day dramas of life.

A wonderful read about family, love, and friendship. I loved the character development of Clare, Skye, and Liz, it was also great to see a sixty plus woman getting some new life experiences and finding love. I loved her and Patrick together, his calmness and persistence in getting Liz to look again at him.
Clare and Skye were great as sisters finally discovering their relationship, seeing them bond was quite touching. Ivy was brilliant too, you can never go wrong with a baby stealing the show.

It was a beautiful read and I found myself getting quite emotional toward the end, as Clare raced to get to Adam.

I am never disappointed with any book by Cathy Bramley. I've read them all and don't even need to read the blurb to know I'm going to love every one of her latest books. Cathy writes with so much warmth, kindness and with a special talent for understanding and relating to all age groups. This is another multi generational story featuring three women who are all flawed, struggling with crises in their lives and yet have an inner strength that pulls them through. I liked all of these women equally as they all brought something different to the story. There are various themes throughout including romance, betrayal, family feuds, alcoholism and more - all of which kept me gripped and wanting to read just one more chapter to see what happened next. Another thing that I love about Cathy's writing is that despite some hard hitting subjects and some unpleasant people and situations she never resorts to offensive language or graphic sexual descriptions. It takes a special talent to convey certain scenarios in a way that informs rather than offends. Keep them coming Cathy. I look forward to the next one. My thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a pre release copy in exchange for my honest review.

I am a huge fan of Cathy Bramley's writing and have devoured all of her previous books so I was super excited to read The Sunrise Sisterhood.

Set in the stunning location of Salcombe, (one of my favourite places in the UK!) this heart-warming novel touches on the subjects of grief, loss, hurt and rejection in the gentlest of ways. I loved all the characters and I particularly enjoyed learning how their pasts had made them into the present versions of themselves.

The structure of the novel (three women and their different stories) reminded me of Cathy Bramley's novel released last year (The Summer that Changed Us) which I also absolutely loved. I feel that her more recent novels have really brought individual characters to life and I love reading about strong female leads across all stages of life.

Uplifting and life affirming, The Sunrise Sisterhood is a must-read book this summer!

I can't wait for her next book already.

Cathy Bramley is a fabulous author & this was a great read. I will be recommending this book to everyone!

This author writes brilliant books and her stories are full of compassion and come from the heart. I love how she covers relatable topics and how her stories strike a chord. The sunrise sisterhood was a poignant multigenerational read about dealing with grief and other issues that life throws at you and how these issues are much better when our in the open and with the support of others around you. The book also highlighted how strong women can be when dealing with lives problems and how that Strength is heightened when they all pull together

This book pulled at my heart strings and broke me in places and then slowly pieced me back together again and tissues were definitely needed in places.

I would love a sequel to this to see where the characters journeys take them next

Liz has let her catering business slide in the 2 years since her best friend and business partner Jen died suddenly. Now, faced with the challenge of paying back a loan she didn’t realise she owed and the imminent arrival of her two god-daughters, Skye and Clare and Clare’s daughter Ivy, Liz decides she needs to get things moving again.
Skye and Claire are half-sisters who barely get on so it will be a challenge to say the least but with summer in Salcombe in full swing and the bookings for Liz’s catering building up. the three women will need to find a way to live and work together if Liz is going to salvage something.
As the summer moves on the women find themselves sharing more than they could ever imagine, as they lay bare their secrets, hopes and dreams.
A beautiful story of love and friendship in an idyllic setting.

It's a good day when a new Cathy Bramley book comes out.

Somehow, I have only read 3 of her books before, which seems amazing really as she's become such a staple author that I feel I've known her for longer. But what I have read is beautifully warming and cosy, and this is no different.

I love how she's explored the relationships between the characters. Clare and Skye are half-sisters, and don't particularly get on; their relationship is not perfect, for a number of reasons, but it feels so real and recognisable. What siblings do get on 24/7, full or half? It's not all happy sunshine all the time, and she's captured that wonderfully. I also loved the focus on their Godmother Liz. That's a relationship that is rarely looked at, and yet it can be one of the most important.

Liz was my favourite character by miles. Not perfect by any means, but she means well, is caring, loving, and wants the best for everyone, but is struggling herself. But she's the motherly figure the story needs. Out of Clare and Skye I'm not sure I had a favourite. Clare was hard to like at first, very prickly and standoffish, but for her own reasons. But once you've stripped those outer layers back, you do get a nicer character. Skye was very much in the dark at first, plodding along, not necessarily sure what her life should look like, jealous of Clare. But she grows throughout the story. The two half-sisters complement each other perfectly and they feel like this proper unit. I didn't care for their Dad Mike at first, very up himself, trying to keep hold of his youth - even though he's in his 60s - and he irked me for most of the book, but he did manage to eventually win me round, but I still think it is the female characters that excel.

Cathy has managed to take difficult subjects and handle them with such empathy and kindness. This time we've got death and grief, single parenting, relationship difficulties, alcohol dependency, loneliness, deception, identity questions, employment struggles, sexuality, unrequited love, and they're just right. Never too much just for entertainment purposes, but they all have a purpose in the story.

I think the exploration of grief was first class. Grief isn't necessarily all sitting and weeping. It can be feeling like you're lost, you depend on other things such as alcohol or drugs, you're angry, you snap at the people you love, etc. It's nice to see grief explored like this, and explored through different people. We see how the loss of Jen affects her daughter, her step-daughter, her friends, and her clients. I also loved that Jen was ever present in the book, just as she is ever present in the characters' lives.

Cathy has this amazing ability to write beautiful multigenerational stories. She's as perfect at depicting someone in their 20s as she is someone in their 60s. There's real love and skill and passion here.

I've bought her books for friends before as presents, and I definitely think the same will happen with this one. Very enjoyable, entertaining, thought provoking, joyful and hopeful.

This has to be up to now the best book I have read by Cathy, it was a wonderful story joining together two sisters with their Godmother over a summer in Cornwall. The lives of Skye, Claire and Liz were meshed together so easily, you wished them well through every word as they embarked on their journeys.
Each of them had different things to deal with but it flowed well.
You felt that Cathy really fell in love with them and the storyline beautifully flowed with the emotions and descriptions that the story was telling, I loved the comedic situations as well, they brought a smile to my face. I so hope that there will be return.

Firstly, isn’t this cover just gorgeous? It makes me excited for summer and summer reads (whether that’s by a pool, on a beach or in the garden). I love Cathy Bramley books (I think I’ve read most of not all of them). And this was another great read from her. It’s all about three women - Liz, and her two god daughters Clare and Sky (who are half sisters). During the course of one summer, these ladies will bond as secrets are revealed. All three ladies have stuff going on in their personal lives that the others know nothing about. Can they all get a happy ending? Well, it’s a women’s fiction title so I think you know the answer to that one!! Seriously though, I loved this. I was thoroughly invested in all three characters and I was rooting for them. Another smash hit from Cathy!

Ok so i do love a Cathy Bramley book so it was a no-brainer to request this.
I really enjoyed this book, I picked it up Wednesday evening and finished it Thursday morning because i could barely put it down. I was pulled along with each of the stories of Liz, Claire and Skye, i really loved each of the main characters (well maybe not Mike) and i was invested in what would happen next.
I really hope we revisit these ladies in another book sometime because i loved the setting and would love to see more of what happens in their lives.

Oh my!!!!!! Cathy Bramley has done it again, a fantastic read and I could not stop reading it. Set in Devon, you had a beautiful setting, two half sisters who had lost their way and they found it with the help of their god mother who had her own problems. Asking for help and letting go are both hard. Some great twists in the book you did not expect . Absolutely brilliant . May be my favourite to date of Cathy’s

What can I say… I absolutely loved this book. I have read all of Cathy’s books and everyone just keeps getting better and better. I loved the characters and enjoyed the fact that it focused on 3 strong women Skye,Clare and Liz all at different places in their lives although their journeys were intertwined. I liked the range of characters and the fact there were older characters as well as young ones
I loved the ending even though I could hardly read for the tears. I would love a sequel to this and I’m keeping everything crossed.
I could not put this book down and I don’t have anything negative to say about this which is unusual and I would recommend this to everyone it’s a fantastic summer read.
Thanks to Netgalley, Orion publishing group and Cathy Bramley for an advanced copy in exchange for my unbiased and honest opinion.

Cathy Bramley can always be relied upon to give us a good story. The setting is important too and always makes us long to be there and be part of this loving group. The story goes across age ranges which should make it appeal to a broad range of reader. It’s told with sympathy and the plot resolution should make you finish the book with a reluctant sigh.