The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan Anna worked at a boring mass-produced chocolate factory in a small English town, until a freak accident left her missing two of her toes, and her self-esteem. Feeling sorry for herself and bored, she rekindled a friendship with her old French teacher, who is also at…
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Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
Polly and her adorable puffin Neal now live in the lighthouse on the Scottish island of Polbearne with her boyfriend Huckle, the beekeeper. In the mornings, she wakes early and goes down to the cold bakery and starts up the oven for fresh bread and pastries the locals will devour. Christmas is no exception, with…
“The Cafe by the Sea” Book Discussion and Lemon Raspberry Jam Cupcakes with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
The Cafe by the Sea by Jenny Colgan Flora works at a law office and lives in a cramped London apartment, seeking to escape her childhood memories of farming on a small, cold Scottish island. Mure is a place that now only holds flashbacks of her mother who passed away, the awful thing she said…
The Light in Summer by Mary McNear
Billy Harper is a single mother and the head librarian in the town of Butternut Lake. Merely trying to survive the onset of her son’s adolescence, Billy frequently copes by talking to her labrador, Murphy, on the back porch, with a glass of wine and a Jane Austen novel. Her son Luke has never met…
The Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan is the perfect retreat for anyone who’s ever worked their hardest and failed anyway. Polly and her former boyfriend Chris did everything they could to keep his graphic design business alive, and Polly is exhausted, from working so hard to save the business, and to uplift a a…
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe” Book Discussion and Pineapple Cupcakes with Pineapple Cream Cheese Frosting
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan Issy’s grandfather once owned a great bakery and taught her the precise way to create perfect bread crusts, crumbly scones, and anything else he baked up. But now, many years later, Issy bakes only for her coworkers in the law firm she works for, and her…
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
Nina was just let go from her job as a librarian in the city, where they want young college grads who know more about marketing than finding the perfect book for readers, as Nina does. So she purchases a decrepit white van from man in a tiny town in Scotland, and discovers that the landscape…