Prepare to fall in love with beautiful village of Burley Bridge.
Growing up in a quiet Yorkshire village, Roxanne couldnโt 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 โ or so it seems to her sister Della. But when Roxanne gets her heart broken by a fashion photographer, she runs away, back to Dellaโs welcoming home above her bookshop in Burley Bridge.
But Burley Bridge, Roxanne discovers, is even quieter than she remembered. Thereโs nothing to do, so Roxanne agrees to walk Dellaโs dog Stanley. Itโs on these walks that Roxanne makes a startling discovery: the people who live in Burley Bridge are, well, just people โ different from the fashion set sheโs 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 sheโs 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 sheโs 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 worldโs worst baker but tends to blame her failures on โthe ovenโ.