I am thrilled to be sharing my review for Jane Linfoot’s Tea for Two at the Little Cornish Kitchen. A massive thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and One More Chapter for gifting a copy of the book for me to join the tour today.
St Aidan: a cosy Cornish village where friendships are made for life and it’s always cocktail hour somewhere…
The Little Cornish Kitchen is going on tour!
When internet sensation ‘Cressida Cupcake’ has a soggy bottomed TV fiasco and faces bake-off backlash she jumps at the chance to spend some time hiding out in St Aidan, dog sitting for her brother.
Picturesque Seaspray Cottage is meant to be Cressy Hobson’s port in the storm but with her blog sponsors having fled and her book deal gone sideways her funds are running low and she’s forced to turn to the locals for help. Soon her quiet weeks in Cornwall are filled with chasing sheep, saving the local retirement village, taking The Little Cornish Kitchen into people’s homes for baking nights…and keeping vigilant guard against romance.
The one and only time Cressy lost her head to love was over a decade ago while in St Aidan, and she won’t be making the same mistake again – a feat easier said than done when Ross Bradbury looks even better a decade on…and every step she takes seems to put him in her path!
My very first Jane Linfoot novel, and I didn’t realise what I was missing. After reading this book, I really wish I had read the one before, not that I needed to. This book reads great on its own.
We meet Cressida, a.k.a Cressida Cupcake, who has made a boo boo on a bakery programme, and overnight, she has lost her book deal and her sponsors.but luckily for her, she’s already hiding out in the lovely Cornish village of St Aidan, pet-sitting for her brother and his wife, who are off on honeymoon. Clemmie her soster in law has left a standing invitation to be part of her friendship group, something Cressida has never really experienced, and although she is convinced she is able to cope alone, soon she’s accepting their support and slots in as one of the girls. Romance is not on her agenda,then she comes face to face with Ross, and he looks even better than years ago when their relationship ended.
The setting for this lovely story is perfect, and when you have a friendship group called the Mermaids, I really believe you can’t go wrong. Add to the mix a cute cat and a dog; it gets even better. To put the icing on the cake, there are residents in a care home to add to the community spirit that is the very core to the story.
Jane Linfoot’s characters are skillfully drawn to add to an already entertaining and mouthwatering story. That’s due to the baking throughout. The recipes are to die for! Every character plays their own unique part in the book. I enjoyed spending time with everyone in St. Aiden.
This book is a multi layered story, not just a Rom-Com; it’s packed with friendship, love, community spirit, and second chances. I would tell everyone to pick up and try this, you may just be surprised.
Purchase Links
UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tea-Little-Cornish-Kitchen-Book-ebook/dp/B09MH5L4SP/
US – https://www.amazon.com/Tea-Little-Cornish-Kitchen-Book-ebook/dp/B09MH5L4SP/
Author Bio
Jane Linfoot is a best selling author, who lives in a cottage, up the steepest hill in Derbyshire, with her family, their pets, and an astonishing number of spiders. Although she loves seeing cow noses over the garden wall, she’s happy she can walk to a supermarket. Jane grew up in North Yorkshire where she spent a lot of her childhood avoiding horizontal gales blowing off the sea, and wrote her first book by accident, while working as an architect, and renovating country houses. While she loves to write feel good books that let readers escape, she’s always surprised to hear her stories make people laugh, admits to (occasionally) crying as she writes, and credits her characters for creating their own story lines. Jane’s garden would be less brambly if she wasn’t on Facebook and Twitter so often. On days when she wants to be really scared, she rides a tandem. She has lots of Pinterest boards relating to her novels.
Social Media Links –
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Sharon, thank you so much for reading and joining in the Tea for Two at the Little Cornish Kitchen book tour, it’s fab to be on your blog today. Your review is lovely, it’s so special for a reviewer to pick out so many things that were in my head as I wrote the story, it’s wonderful of you to give your blog followers such a wonderful taste of life in St Aidan. I’m thrilled you enjoyed your time with the characters, huge hugs for all your amazing support, big love, Jane xx
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It was a pleasure Jane! Now I want to read your other one in this series! I loved the story. X
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