Prepare to fall in love with beautiful village of Burley Bridge.
Growing up in a quiet Yorkshire village, Roxanne couldnтАЩt wait to escape and find her place in the world in London. As a high-powered fashion editor she lives a glamorous life of perennial singlehood тАУ or so it seems to her sister Della. But when Roxanne gets her heart broken by a fashion photographer, she runs away, back to DellaтАЩs welcoming home above her bookshop in Burley Bridge.
But Burley Bridge, Roxanne discovers, is even quieter than she remembered. ThereтАЩs nothing to do, so Roxanne agrees to walk DellaтАЩs dog Stanley. ItтАЩs on these walks that Roxanne makes a startling discovery: the people who live in Burley Bridge are, well, just people тАУ different from the fashion set sheтАЩs used to, but kind and even interesting. Michael, a widower trying to make a go of a small bakery, particularly so. Little by little, cupcake by cupcake, Roxanne and Michael fall into a comforting friendship.
Could there be a life for Roxanne after all, in the place sheтАЩs spent years trying to escape?
The perfect cosy, heartwarming read for fans of Trisha Ashley.
Ellen Berry is an author and magazine journalist. Originally from rural West Yorkshire, she has three teenage children and lives with her husband and their daughter in Glasgow. When sheтАЩs not writing, she loves to cook and browse her vast collection of cookbooks, which is how the idea for this story came about. However, she remains the worldтАЩs worst baker but tends to blame her failures on тАШthe ovenтАЩ.