The Little Bakery on Rosemary Lane

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As comforting as a slice of homemade apple pie Red

Prepare to fall in love with beautiful village of Burley Bridge.
Growing up in a Yorkshire village, Roxanne Cartwright couldnt wait to escape and make her place in the world. Now, thirty years later, shes a fashion editor living a glamorous life of perennial singlehood in London or so it seems to her sister Della. But when Roxanne finds her career under threat, she feels herself pulled back to the quiet village shed been so desperate to leave.

As Roxanne reacquaints herself with life on Rosemary Lane, she slowly makes a surprising discovery: the people who live in Burley Bridge are, well, just people different from the fashion set shes used to, but kind and even interesting. Michael, a single dad trying to make a go of a small bakery, particularly so. Little by little, cupcake by cupcake, Roxanne and Michael fall into an unexpected friendship. Could there be a life for Roxanne after all, in the place shes spent years trying to escape

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Warm, funny and poignant. The Daily Mail

A novel as comforting as a slice of homemade apple pie. Red

Brilliantmanages to capture family life perfectly. Chick Lit Reviews

Author Bio

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 she's 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 world's worst baker but tends to blame her failures on 'the oven'.