The Wee Small Hours by Rosa Temple

The Wee Small Hours

 by Rosa Temple

The Wee Small Hours by Rosa Temple

was published by Island Dream Books.

 My thanks to the author and publisher

 for sending me a copy to review and to

 Random Things Resources for inviting me onto the tour.

Synopsis

A cosy small-town romance about sleepless nights, unexpected friendships, and finding love when you least expect it.

Annie Lambert hasn’t slept properly in years. Her remedy? Moonlit walks through her quiet Herefordshire town, where secrets linger and stories whisper in the shadows. When her mother returns to Australia, Annie inherits the crumbling family home—and a place in the Monday Afternoon Knitters Circle, a trio of spirited seventy-somethings determined to fix her life stitch by stitch.

Suddenly, Annie’s small-town world is anything but quiet. A homeless man and his loyal dog become her closest confidants. A charming ex-footballer arrives as a new client. And her rugged builder seems to have more than bricks on his mind. As romance sparks and renovations begin, Annie finds herself tangled in more than just yarn.

But when old wounds resurface and the knitting club’s secrets threaten to unravel, Annie must decide: can she mend the lives around her while finally stitching together her own?

The Wee Small Hours is a heartwarming novel about second chances, found family, and the healing power of connection—even in the loneliest hours.

My Thoughts

This is one of those lovely books that you need to read when you want to relax with a gently love story on a cold wet day in a lovely hygge environment. It’s not a taxing read and I finished it over the space of a couple of days , though I did ignore anything that needed doing around the house !!!!!!

There are a wide mix of different characters who are in Annie’s life for you to get your teeth into from the glamorous ex footballer to the hunky builder who renovates her house, that we could all do with knowing!!! The Monday afternoon knitting club of ladies of a certain age to the homeless Dexter and his dog. But mainly it is about the lovely Annie who you will definitely finding yourself warming to .

I also loved the use of jazz songs to get you through the sleepless hours of the night that many of us encounter and I really appreciated the appendix of songs that Annie listened to at the back of the book, which have since given me a few more hours of enjoyment as I relaxed and listened to them 

To say I loved The Wee Small Hours is an understatement and I wish I had several similar books that I could turn to when I just need to hunker down and read a lovely heartwarming story about a lovely main character. Rosa will definitely be one of those authors on my”Watch out for” list moving forwards.

About Rosa

Rosa Temple writes feel-good contemporary fiction with plenty of romance and romantic humour. Her novels celebrate love, friendship, and the messy, magical moments that make life worth living.

She is the author of four self-published titles: Sleeping With Your Best Friend, Natalie’s Getting Married, Single by Christmas, and Dear...Anybody? As well as three romantic comedies published by HQ Digital: Playing by the Rules, Playing Her Cards Right, and Playing for Keeps. In 2022, Simon & Schuster UK released her uplifting novel The Slow Lane Walkers Club, a heartwarming story about community and second chances.

Rosa Temple is the pen name of Fran Clark, who also writes emotive women’s historical fiction.

She lives in Herefordshire, where she leads a community choir, teaches vocals, and occasionally performs soul, jazz, and Latin music. She writes every day, usually with herbal tea and banana bread, and is always trying to improve her piano skills.