Sweetshop of Dreams : A Novel with Recipes (Hardcover)

from nicx27

I love how Jenny Colgan is now writing about cakes and sweets and chocolate. Very in at the moment and right up my street. This book is about Rosie, who has to go and look after her great aunt Lilian and get her old sweetshop ready for sale. Lilian is getting on and really needs to go into a home...

from Carlathelibrarian

Rosie has a rather stagnant life. She lives in London with her boyfriend of seven years, Gerard. She is an auxilary nurse with a few good friends. She is over thirty, bored yet rather complacent. She gets a phone call from her mother in Australia. Her Great Aunt Lillian, who lived in the small vi...

from Felicity-Smith

Read this on the back of loving the Cupcake cafe book by the same author. This was more of the same and definitely a lovely story. The sweet shop references were a little difficult for me to appreciate fully having not grown up in the UK but I loved the feeling of the characters and the storys th...

from tjsjohanna

Rosie has settled for a mediocre life, all the while telling herself it's what she really wants. But when she is asked to go care for an ailing aunt and settles into life in a country town, she begins to discover who she really is and what she really likes. Her boyfriend is such a loser - I could...

from susan0316

Rosie Hopkins leaves her life in London and her live in boyfriend to take care of her aunt in a small village where the aunt owns a run down sweet shop. Rosie has never been outside the city and makes all sorts of big city mistakes in the small town but at the same time, she makes some very good ...