Discover Shallow Affairs, Nicky Osborne’s warm, witty, and deeply observed debut novel set against the stunning backdrop of a Cornish summer. This is a story about desire, friendship, class, and the exquisite complications that arise when very different lives collide over one irresistible season.

• A warm, funny, and impossible-to-put-down contemporary fiction read.
• Features wonderfully flawed characters navigating freedom, strained marriages, and secrets surfacing in the sunshine.
• Set in the picturesque locations of Fowey and Polzeath, Cornwall.
• Perfect for fans of Jilly Cooper, Joanna Trollope, Fern Britton, and Milly Johnson.

In the golden world of a Cornish summer, where the sea shimmers at Fowey and the surf rolls in at Polzeath, a cast of characters arrives carrying the full weight of their real lives. Young women taste freedom, couples cling to marriages held together by little, and men seek excuses in the sunshine. Nobody intends to cause chaos, but secrets have a way of surfacing. By the time summer ends, nothing and no one will be quite the same.

• Author: Nicky Osborne
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Print Length: 270 pages
• Publication Date: April 16, 2026
• ISBN-13: 979-8257698835
• Dimensions: 152 x 17 x 229mm (6 x 0.68 x 9 inches)
• Weight: 367g
• Manufacturer: Independently published

Shallow Affairs is a novel that entertains completely and lingers beautifully, much like a perfect Cornish summer itself.