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Saturday, 2 April 2022

The Village of Happy Ever Afters - Alison Sherlock

 

Molly Hopkins has happily watched all of her friends’ dreams come true on Riverside Lane.

Deciding to follow her passion for baking, Molly with the help of her friends takes the plunge and opens a Tea Garden in the village hoping to make it a summer to remember!

Meanwhile, after a rather public end of his marriage, Logan Armstrong trusts no one but his beloved Grandad. He just wants his brief stay in Cranbridge to be as quiet as possible. But his Grandad has other ideas; he dreams of seeing the old watermill working again which might just mean Logan has to ask the village for help.

Can Molly finally overcome her lack of confidence and believe in her abilities to make the tea garden a success?

Will Logan discover that Molly might just be the one to mend his broken heart? And will both of them realise that life is for living and loving?

Over a long hot summer in Cranbridge, perhaps everyone’s dreams of a happy-ever-after can finally

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My Review:

I really enjoy this The Riverside Lane Series by Alison Sherlock. This is book4 but if you haven’t enjoyed the series so far you needn’t worry, each book does work as a standalone (I highly recommend reading the others though too).

This book we focus on Molly, one of the friendship group we have come to really love. She has shown many times just how lovely she is, but we see a side to her during this story that is how vulnerable and ‘taken for granted she can feel, that she’s just the one who always does everything for everyone else and nothing for herself.

This is such a good story about putting yourself first, having faith in your abilities, taking a chance, and using some grit, determination, and perseverance to achieve your dreams.

Logan is a great contrasting character to Molly, admittedly at first, I thought he needed a kick up the bum but he has a kind heart, confidence in Molly and does want to help those he cares about. He’s working to get over past hurt and it’s understandable he wants to keep his head down, go about his business without too much of a fuss.

Loved catching up with all the characters within this idyllic sounding village – it sounds such a picturesque setting.  There is some comedy from Del, as always.

A story that captures true friendships, romance and a community who will go out of their way to support their own, welcome new faces and celebrate everyone’s abilities and talents.

Alison Sherlock writes such believable characters in realistic situations; you can’t help but become absorbed in their lives. Highly recommended!

Author Bio: 

Alison Sherlock is the author of the bestselling Willow Tree Hall books. Alison
enjoyed reading and writing stories from an early age and gave up office life to follow
her dream. Her new series for Boldwood is set in a fictional Cotswold Village and the
first title was published in July 2020.


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Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Tea for Two at the Little Cornish Kitchen - Jane Linfoot

 

St Aidan: a cosy Cornish village where friendships are made for life and it’s always cocktail hour somewhere…

The Little Cornish Kitchen is going on tour!
When internet sensation ‘Cressida Cupcake’ has a soggy bottomed TV fiasco and faces bake-off backlash she jumps at the chance to spend some time hiding out in St Aidan, dog sitting for her brother.

Picturesque Seaspray Cottage is meant to be Cressy Hobson’s port in the storm but with her blog sponsors having fled and her book deal gone sideways her funds are running low and she’s forced to turn to the locals for help. Soon her quiet weeks in Cornwall are filled with chasing sheep, saving the local retirement village, taking The Little Cornish Kitchen into people’s homes for baking nights…and keeping vigilant guard against romance.

The one and only time Cressy lost her head to love was over a decade ago while in St Aidan, and she won’t be making the same mistake again – a feat easier said than done when Ross Bradbury looks even better a decade on…and every step she takes seems to put him in her path!

 

My Review:

A Jane Linfoot book is something to be cherished and savoured; it’s like familiar warm hug in book form. It’s great to be back in St Aiden, but the Cornish village is a wonderful location for Jane’s books. Don’t worry if you have never read anything by Jane before, this works as a standalone. I would highly recommend reading everything else by Jane Linfoot, you will adore them all.

Tea For Two at the Little Cornish Kitchen drew me in from page one and I didn’t want to put it down, well unless it was to grab something sweet and tasty! It is a fun, cosy, romance that is jam packed full of delicious, mouthwatering descriptions of treats, cakes and bakes.

As always, we have a wonderful array of characters, some that you will take to heart immediately, some you hope will change for the better in more ways than one and some that make you laugh. Here we have Cressida Cupcake, and she encompasses all those things.

Whilst pet sitting, Cressy has change to assess the damage from her recent ‘mistakes’ and find herself a way to rise again. She isn’t herself and she is desperate to get back to the Cressida Cupcake everyone knew.

Discovering an unexpected yet familiar face is around, and is going to be a lot closer than she would ever like them to be, stirs up memories she would rather keep hidden and reopens scars she tried to believe were healed. Can old loves get over years of pain and learn to get along? Can past sorrows ever be eased?

I loved the idea of The Little Cornish Kitchen on tour, and seeing how Cressida Cupcake would deal with various situations. I wish it was real, each event sounded like an absolute riot (even when it wasn’t meant too!) Such a great community feel in these books, Cressida really does get stuck in and she’s not shy about working hard.

I loved getting to know the characters, loved being back in a familiar setting and loved all the different elements to the story. It’s warm, full of heart and sentiment and Jane’s writing makes you feel like you are right there in the heart of the community she has created. They feel like friends and that’s why I always look forward to the next Jane Linfoot book, no matter how long that may be.

Thank you to One More Chapter and Netgalley and for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

Purchase Links

UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tea-Little-Cornish-Kitchen-Book-ebook/dp/B09MH5L4SP/

US - https://www.amazon.com/Tea-Little-Cornish-Kitchen-Book-ebook/dp/B09MH5L4SP/

Author Bio:

Jane Linfoot is a best selling author, who lives in a cottage, up the steepest hill in Derbyshire, with her family, their pets, and an astonishing number of spiders. Although she loves seeing cow noses over the garden wall, shes happy she can walk to a supermarket. Jane grew up in North Yorkshire where she spent a lot of her childhood avoiding horizontal gales blowing off the sea, and wrote her first book by accident, while working as an architect, and renovating country houses. While she loves to write feel good books that let readers escape, shes always surprised to hear her stories make people laugh, admits to (occasionally) crying as she writes, and credits her characters for creating their own story lines. Janes garden would be less brambly if she wasnt on Facebook and Twitter so often. On days when she wants to be really scared, she rides a tandem. She has lots of Pinterest boards relating to her novels.

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