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Teacakes and Tamgos by Rosie Green #Review #LittleDuckPondCafeBook41

  Welcome to Book 41 in the Little Duck Pond Cafe series! Teacakes and Tangos  is the latest novella by Rosie Green.   Clara’s dance school is finally open, much to the excitement of the residents of Sunnybrook. The stress-busting, lights-off ‘Dancing in the Dark’ sessions are a big hit with the Little Duck Pond Café girls. But when the school is threatened with closure, will Clara’s dream be over before it’s even begun? Love is in the air for new recruit Anika, but could her dreams of romance be about to turn sour, too? My Thoughts In this latest visit to Sunnybrook, we take up Clara's story again as she prepares to open her long wished for Dance School. However, she begins to wonder whether her trusting nature has been abused as suspicion falls on her sisteras to her motives and doubts are raised in her engagement. You are willing her to sort out her personal life and take a stand  in a wish for the truth.     The latest off shoot of the Little Duck P...

Clara's Secret Garden Little Duck Pond Cafe by Rosie Green #Review #LittleDuckPondBook23

 

Yes! It's time for another visit to the Little Duck Pond Cafe for another novella by Rosie Green. Clara's Secret Garden is number 23 in the series which is amazing! This is the first of  three novellas which tell Clara's story..  

 
When Clara Bowes transforms a wilderness of a garden, she isn't expecting to reconnect with someone special from her past at the same time. Having Rory Angel in her life again is a dream come true. But life is never straight forward – especially in matters of the heart – and soon, a devastating revelation looks set to bring Clara's hopes for the future crashing down around her. Will she find the strength to reach for her dreams?


 My Thoughts

 By now, Sunnybrook seems quite familiar and it is great to wonder who you are going to meet up with this time, where and when! This series also seems to be able to include new characters each time and incorporate them into the annual calendar of village life. Now we get to meet Clara and her family. She is immensely likeable and has a deep desire to keep her family together and to look after her half-brother, despite her mother's poor parenting. You feel a lot of sympathy for her and once she meets up with Rory again, you are rooting for her to find some personal happiness. However, some things do not go according to plan!

    It is always good to check in with the Little Duck Pond Cafe and I enjoyed the interludes there and hearing snippets about characters who have featured previously. As this is the first in a three- part story, there is a lot more to come for Clara and I am interested to find out what is next for her.

In short: family, friends, cakes and dancing.


About the Author

 

 

Rosie’s series of novellas is centred around life in a country village cafe. Look out for ‘A Winter Wish’, published in October, the second book in a heart-warming trilogy centred around peacemaker Clara, who’s having to cope with the demands of her slightly dysfunctional family while searching for her own happy-ever-after . . .

The third book in the trilogy is ‘Clara’s Christmas Magic’, out in November 2022.

 

You can read my review of more of this series here:

 
You can follow Rosie here:   Twitter


 
  
Thanks to Rosie Green and Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for a copy of the book and a place on the event. 

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