ABOUT PUFFIN BAY
Puffin Bay is a fictional small seaside town set on the very real island of Anglesey, or Ynys Môns as its name is in Welsh. We started visiting Anglesey on a regular basis from 2001, often driving there and back in a day to walk along some of the coastal path or take a boat ride around Puffin Island. The island is a quiet, calm refuge, with lots of beautiful places to relax as well as a really good food scene - some of my favourite restaurants are there.
When Amelie from the Callaghan Green series needed a move away from London, Anglesey was the ideal place for her to retreat to and so the idea for Puffin Bay was born. Many of the places referred to in the series are real, and several of them provide visual inspo for the town.
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South Stack Lighthouse is meant to be haunted! In Puffin Bay, it would be one of the lighthouses looked after by Than; in real life, it's a lot different.
MOELFRE
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The little village of Moelfre is too small to be Puffin Bay, but it was the main visual inspiration for the town. It's a lovely village, with a number of boats usually there too, and the lifeboat station.
MOELFRE RNLI
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MOELFRE RNLI
This guy is on the coastal path at Moelfre, near the lifeboat station. This was part of teh inspo for Joel McAllister.
THE BEACHES
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MOELFRE RNLI
The beaches around the island are all gorgeous. This was taken from the beach between Red Wharf Bay and Benllech.
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South Stack Lighthouse is meant to be haunted! In Puffin Bay, it would be one of the lighthouses looked after by Than; in real life, it's a lot different.
MOELFRE
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Another one of Moelfre!
Beaumaris Castle
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Penmon/black point
Built centuries ago and never finished, castles like Beaumaris are scattered all over north Wales. References in the books as a place to visit.
Penmon/black point
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Use as the inspo for the cover of Wild Tides, this lighthouse isn't lived in though!
PUFFIN BAY
Heartbreak led me to Puffin Bay, searching for peace in a small, coastal town. Four years later, my bar is thriving and my next business is just what the town needs.
It doesn’t need Roman Tominey. Arrogant, city-boy, suit-wearing grump - he knows how to push every one of my buttons, and after an evening of bad decisions, he knows how to push that one too.
When Roman’s newly found teenage son joins him, Roman’s summer stay is extended. We spend the days arguing over a building project the local council insist we do together, and the evenings with him sneaking into my room.
Then Roman’s ideas for Puffin Bay’s development cause all out war between us.
Those sparks between us? They become weapons.
Only Roman doesn’t fire his. It seems he wants something more than another zero on the end of his bank balance and he might just discard his suit - and its buttons - to keep on pressing mine.
WILD TIDES
Book 2 in the Puffin Bay series
LOVERS HEIGHTS
Book 3 in the Puffin Bay series