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The Boulangerie on the Corner by Susan Buchanan #Review #EuropeanEscapes

  πŸ₯–πŸ₯πŸ₯–πŸ₯ Grab your passport for the first in the European Escapes series πŸ₯πŸ₯–πŸ₯πŸ₯– No home. No job. No boyfriend.  When Lia loses her job straight after a break-up, she escapes to the Molins’ family-run boulangerie in Toulouse – the place she was last happy, far away from her cheating ex.  Sworn off men, she isn’t prepared for the spark she feels for charming cheesemaker Jean-Luc, nor for things heating up at the family’s country home in Gascony when handsome, self-assured vineyard-owner ThΓ©o asks her out.  Torn between the two and her connections to the Molins family, Lia has some tough decisions to make.  Lia loves being back in France with the people she cares about, helping in the boulangerie. On discovering it is under threat of closure, she is devastated and resolves to do everything in her power to help it stay open. Will she succeed? And will she be able to choose between the two handsome Frenchmen and live her happily ever after?  For...

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 cafΓ© 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 CafΓ© 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 CafΓ© 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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