Audiobook Ella's Ice-Cream Summer written by Sue Watson. Ella’s life just hit rock bottom, but can a summer by the sea mend her broken heart? When life gives you lemons. make ice cream! Life hasn’t always been easy for single mum Ella, but she has just hit an all-time low; she’s jobless, loveless, very nearly homeless and, to make matters worse, now the owner of a pocket-sized pooch with a better wardrobe than her.