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Katie Ginger

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A light summer read that would delight fans of Jenny Colgan. Can be read as a stand alone, however, you'd probably want to read her debut novel as well (Spring Tides at Swallowtail Bay). Ginger artfully writes how important community can be and has you cheering for the success of the quaint businesses and festivals and wishing you could take a journey to this fictional seaside town in England. #SummerStrawberriesatSwallowtailBay Thanks to #NetGalley for an advanced copy.
 
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bellabrightman | Jun 24, 2020 |
Esme Kendrick thinks she's living her best life, with a job as food technologist on a popular cooking show, a handsome boyfriend, and amazing apartment in London.

Then she loses the job because she objects to the star claiming one of Esme's grandma's most treasure recipes as her own, and that same day, her gorgeous boyfriend dumps her for the woman he's been seeing behind her back. Since the amazing apartment is his, that's gone too.

Her friends help her get her stuff out, but unemployed now,, her only option is to go back home to Sandchester, and start rebuilding her life and career. Her parents give her the money they'd been saving for her wedding, and a guy she knew in school, Joe Holloway, is back in Sandchester as an estate agent, after a disappointment he doesn't discuss in Australia. He helps her find a small cottage she can afford for a few months, to avoid living with either her parents or her married sister. (Who are lovely people, but for reasons that quickly become clear, it wouldn't have worked.)

Esme has to deal with the multiple blows to her view of her life, her confidence, and her career, while setting out on a whole new path, a cooking blog that might make her enough of a name to sell the cookbook she's working on. Joe has to deal with his depression, and his guilt over what happened in Australia. Neither of them is in the right place in life to start a new relationship, right?

I love Esme, Joe, Esme's family, and Esme's friends--Helena and Mark, who also work on the show she just got fired from, and Lola, another old schoolmate who has been her best friend for years and also works in London, in marketing rather than cooking tv. Everyone needs friends like this, and in this book, you get to spend some great time with them. It's a lot of fun.

Recommended.

I received a free electronic galley of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, and am reviewing it voluntarily.
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LisCarey | Oct 15, 2019 |

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Verk
9
Medlemmar
35
Popularitet
#405,584
Betyg
½ 3.4
Recensioner
2
ISBN
16