Monday 16 March 2015

Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan


In this wonderful story we meet Polly who is at lowest point in her life, the business she help build and work and put her heart and sole into is now in bankruptcy . Her love life is now nonexistance working together had only pushed her and  and they partner in love and business apart. The bank now own her life once the office was cleared and counted for then they flat  she felt that she could now longer called home it was sink or swim time for Polly.

She serched and serched for a new place to call home the bank left her with very little budget to live on, plus as much as she loved her best friend Keresha she needed to move on .. one day she widening the search she came across an advert she couldn't remember much about the place part from her school trip many years ago but she remember she liked it there.......

Leaving the city behind Polly wondered if she would ever get her life back, but when it came to viewing the property it had some character and a lot of problems but she did not have the luxury of being fussy with her budget !!!!

So when came to moving all her friends were busy or working, but in away that suited Polly as she 
didn't need anymore lectures on how the flat was a death trap waiting to happens d how she was 
cutting herself off from the real world. When she moved she managed to convince the bank to let her have one sofa which happened to be the best one and the one is loved but hiw she was going to get up to the flat was another thing so she she arrived she sett,ed for just the essential things for now as she had the can for a couple of days but her beloved books had to be with her as she moved them with too much in her arms the wind caught them and blow down the beach into heading to the sea she found that she and a rescue team collecting them up by Tarin and his crew of fishmen and they hit off  as they all seemed friendly and helped with that sofa also ...

With a busy first day Polly hit the sack but at 5am was woken by crys she investigates the propery and comes across a baby puffin hurt crying in pain in the old bakery below the flat so she takes him back wraps up the wing makes him and bed and try's to feed him tuna before falling asleep again. In the morning she takes him to the local vet Patrick who praises for the wrapping skills and that the puffin needed to rest his wing not to get attached and on no certain terms to name him as he was not a 
pet .....

That afternoon Polly did something she had not done in a very long time make bread she used to make it every weekend but then stopped while making the bread she felt the pressure leave her body which she had not felt in a long time . Polly decided to share the fresh baked bread with her new friends and say thank you for helping with the sofa and books yesterday they all looked tried and looked like they needed a snack but within the few minuets of handing heaven to the men as they had not had fresh bread in some time she had a name Neil for the puffin she was told not to name !!!!! Polly felt like she was relaxing even flirting alittle with Tarin when her landlady finds out that she is making make bread and informs her that she is only one has bread to sell and she will be out on her ear if she finds out she is making bread again..

The Fishmen beg her to make them bread and before she knew it she had a sercert orders coming in form the village she even started making different favours trying them out getting her juices flowing and this was her passion had be for years she loved to make bread, on her new creations she heard 
there was a bee keeper on the island recently newcomer ( not born on the island) she decides to pay him a visit when she arrives she expects this crazy old man instead she gets young American man they soon bond over honey , bread and Neil. Before she knew it she was in a high demand but one night she can't sleep and sits by the window she sees someone and feels she needs to go and check they are ok and when she gets they she lands up scaring her landlady into the sea she manages to pull her back to shore but finds that she has to go to hospital and stay over  the next day she is faced with a nightmare of guilt and the need to help and Mrs Manise needs to rest so they are bound to working together but ends in in rows and rows till they come to a deal Polly can open the old bakery make bread for the other cake shop daily and she is left to her own free will to make any other bread could her dream true and make a living from the bread  , in the summer season the trade become busy her life was moving on  but she had to let Neil go as it was time this broke her heart as he was the one tue friend she first meet  will the island bring her a new man in a form of a dark breed fisherman or  a blonde bombshell bee keeper ??????

Well you will just have to read the book to find out you will not be disappointed. I'm off to read the next instalment of this wonderful story.



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