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The Island of Hopes and Dreams by Kate Frost #Review

  Travel to beautiful Sardinia for a summery read. The Island of Hopes and Dreams by Kate Frost was published by Boldwood Books on June 16th.   When the beginning of the end is just the start… Newly single Lola Wild has had her fill of well-intentioned matchmaking friends. Her best friend Mirabel’s hen weekend highlights all that’s wrong with Lola’s life and she knows something has to change. With Mirabel’s luxurious wedding in Sardinia fast approaching, Lola is looking forward to switching off, spending time with her friends and keeping her non-existent love life off everyone’s agenda. Meanwhile, fellow wedding guest Rhys Strickland has his own problems. So when a chance encounter brings Rhys and Lola together they decide to help each other out. To the idyllic backdrop of white sand beaches and azure bays, they bond over shared heartache, and friendship blossoms as they attempt to navigate the hurt and hard truths of past relationships. Opening up their hearts ...

The Sticky Toffee Pudding Club by Rosie Green #LittleDuckPondCafe #Review

 

Here we are at Book 35 in the Little Duck Pond Cafe series! The Sticky Toffee Pudding Club is the latest novella by Rosie Green.

 
After bonding with the lovely Jensen as they save a dog in trouble, Annalise – new to Sunnybrook – is gutted when they part without swapping numbers. She'd had the weirdest feeling he could be The One but now she might never see Jensen again. When she loses her new job in a wedding boutique, her week goes from bad to worse – until Maddy and the café crew come to her rescue with an exciting solution. The Pudding Club. Can Annalise rise to the challenge and – with the help of the Little Duck Pond Café crew – start teaching others how to make her glorious puds? And could The Pudding Club be the key to finding Jensen again?



 My Thoughts

I always enjoy another visit to the Little Duck Pond Cafe and I can hardly believe that the latest instalment is number 35! In this visit, we meet Annalise who decides on a new direction after she is sacked from her new job as an assistant in a wedding dress shop. Her relationship with her grandmother is extremely close and she encourages Annalise to take up the chance to show off her puddings. Of course, as a maker of puddings, she is destined to become friends with the girls in the Little Duck Pond Cafe. As ever, it is great to see how everyone is getting along.

   Annalise is on the lookout for the handsome man she met whilst rescuing a mischievous dog and who she cannot get out of her mind. Annalise has some challenges as she visits her grandmother who is in hospital and her offer to her grandmother to help her shows you her courage and her selflessness. I hope that we meet up with Annalise and Jensen again before the series ends. They fit so well into the community.

In short: family and friendships

About the Author

Rosie Green’s Little Duck Pond Cafe series of novellas is centred around life in a village cafe and most can be read as stand-alone stories. (‘The Sunshine Sisters’ is a trilogy within the Little Duck Pond Café series and it would benefit from being read in order: Aurora, Skye and Blossom.) Look out for ‘Cosy Nights & Snowball Fights’, and ‘Maddy’s Christmas Wedding’, both out later this year in time for the festive season!

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

 
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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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