The café by the sea A novel

Jenny Colgan

Book - 2017

Years ago Flora fled the quiet Scottish island where she grew up - and she hasn't looked back. What would she have done on Mure? It's a place where everyone has known her all her life, where no one will let her forget the past. In bright, bustling London, she can be anonymous, ambitious...and hopelessly in love with her boss. But when fate brings Flora back to the island, she's suddenly swept once more into life with her brothers - all strapping, loud, and seemingly incapable of basic housework - and her father. Yet even amid the chaos of their reunion, Flora discovers a passion for cooking - and finds herself restoring a dusty little pink-fronted shop on the harbour: a cafe by the sea.

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Subjects
Genres
Domestic fiction
Published
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2017]
Language
English
Main Author
Jenny Colgan (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
x, 395 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780062675606
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Review by Booklist Review

Immediately following her mother's funeral, Flora MacKenzie abandoned her father and brothers to the farm where she was raised, escaping to an appealingly anonymous city life where she works, drinks wine, and nurses a crush on her boss. She reluctantly returns to the remote Scottish island when required by a work assignment from her fancy London law firm. Left to her own devices by scheduling delays, she cleans up her childhood home, finds her mother's handwritten recipe book, and begins to cook meals and treats that bring her mother's memory back and her family together. She even finds herself attracted to a lovely man from a neighboring island. Without expecting or wanting it, she finds home, love, work, and herself, all while coordinating the successful community integration of a wealthy developer and his hotel project. Multiple fully developed gay characters break up the relentless heteronormativity often found in the genre. Offer this to fans of Sophie Kinsella, Marian Keyes, and Louise Miller's The City Baker's Guide to Country Living (2016).--Moroni, Alene Copyright 2017 Booklist

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