Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 59 Memory Lane | 2019 | Celia Anderson | Buy |
| 2 | The Cottage of Curiosities | 2020 | Celia Anderson | Buy |
The Pengelly series is set in a small, isolated village on the Cornish coast. In the first book, 59 Memory Lane, readers meet May Rosevere, a 110-year-old woman whose long life is connected to her unusual ability to absorb other people’s memories. When a young woman arrives in Pengelly through an Adopt-a-Granny scheme, she gets pulled into the village’s hidden history of old grudges, family secrets, and a lost ring.
The Cottage of Curiosities picks up in the same village with a new central character. Grace Clarke arrives in Pengelly at fifty-four, looking for answers about her birth mother. Grace has her own strange gift: she can see people’s memories. The old stone cottage on Memory Lane is full of trinkets and treasures, and as Grace digs into the past, she uncovers truths that the village has kept quiet for decades. Both books are cozy reads with a dash of the supernatural, grounded in the kind of close-knit community where everybody knows too much about each other.