Welcome To Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop Of Dreams
by:
Jenny Colgan (author)
Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Penny chews or hard boiled sweeties (you do get more for your money that way)? The jangle of your pocket money ...the rustle of the pink and green striped paper bag ...Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life, and her boyfriend Gerard, to...
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Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Penny chews or hard boiled sweeties (you do get more for your money that way)? The jangle of your pocket money ...the rustle of the pink and green striped paper bag ...Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life, and her boyfriend Gerard, to sort out her elderly Aunt Lilian's sweetshop in a small country village is going to be dull. Boy, is she wrong. Lilian Hopkins has spent her life running Lipton's sweetshop, through wartime and family feuds. As she struggles with the idea that it might finally be time to settle up, she also wrestles with the secret history hidden behind the jars of beautifully coloured sweets. Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams - a novel - with recipes.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780751544541 (075154454X)
Publish date: March 28th 2012
Publisher: Sphere
Pages no: 465
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Family,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Series: Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop (#1)
Sweet, literally, story of a woman who goes to rescue her great-aunt only to have her great-aunt rescue her.
Thank you Net Galley and Sourcebooks for allowing me to read and review this book! I LOVED this book! The characters, the story and the setting. Lillian, the crotchety aunt has a sad, but wonderful story to tell. Rosie has settled in her life and every one keeps telling her so. She finally realizes ...
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 that ...
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 that ...
dedication: To my dear sweeties, and my sweetheartOnce a year, usually in the summer, long term Flister Libbeth sends me a surprise and it is always something refreshing; this time it is a sweet shop with recipes:Opening: SOOR PLOOMSThis is a Scots term that translates as sour plums, but in its orig...
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