This is the first book from this author that I have read, but so many of my fellow bloggers have had preview copies and loved it so I had to hunt it down and read it for myself !!!!
With a new author it takes me a good couple of chapters in to know if I'm going to like it but with this book I was hooked from page one ..
In this book we meet Evie Flynn she is a dreamer and sometimes a drifter from place to place and job to job not like her over achieving sisters which make her the black sheep of the family and they do not let her forget it even thou she has been settle for a while with boyfriend Matthew and his son they see every other weekend who Evie loves it bits and stays in a temp job from hell and is being pushed from all sides into teacher training.
so when Evie Aunt Louise dies and leaves her the beach cafe everyone is in shock especially Evie . at first she hasn't decided what to do it she bows down to pressure more everyone to call an estate agent to get heads up on the beach cafe is worth but shortly decides not to sell when she finds out that it won't stay the beach cafe and that who ever buys it could just knock it down and build on the land she has so many brat memories of Louise and the beach cafe so she quits her job and heads down to see what's what....
From the minuet she arrives they is trouble brewing as the cafe is in a small beach village the word as got around she is selling up before she has had a chance to work at it . When she finally arrives at the cafe all the memories come flooding back she had to make this work but the staff are pants , stock going missing and the cafe is not even busy as it should and most of all there is no cake aunt Louise always had cake . Evie soon gets her hand in even thou she is the worst cook in the world and the place starts to look and feel better. Evie lists Annie Louise dearest friend to all the baking for the cafe as her cakes are to die for which will bring back old customers with a cuppa and great slice of cake which is how she remembers her aunt Louise and the beach cafe the most.
Just when Evie gets things back under control with the cafe she heads back to the real world and a new temp job and Matthew, but it's not long before she gets a call that all has gone wrong and she needs to head back down again and she quits her job again and getting this one pass Matthew wasn't going to be easy, but he lets her go Ashe knows where her heart so she as a another shock in as many months but this make Evie realising that she didn't really love Matthew bout she loved being a step mum to Saul more . So she packs up with her best friend in tow she heads to beach cafe for a new life !!!
once she down they and she knows what she wants in life she finds her grove and the beach gets back on the map and is busy 24/7 with the up of the mystery Ed who is also a local newbie and lends a hand in the kitchen till she finds a new chef. Everything is falling into place Evie is also helping a young homeless girl that reminds her of herself and finds she doing what Aunt Louise did for her but that's where my spoilers end you will have to buy the book and find out the ending ......
I really enjoyed reading this new author and will be adding to my reading wish list for more books .
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