Synopsis:
Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Penny chews or hard boiled sweeties (you do get more for your money that way)? The jangle of your pocket money ...the rustle of the pink and green striped paper bag ...Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life, and her boyfriend Gerard, to sort out her elderly Aunt Lilian's sweetshop in a small country village is going to be dull. Boy, is she wrong. Lilian Hopkins has spent her life running Lipton's sweetshop, through wartime and family feuds. As she struggles with the idea that it might finally be time to settle up, she also wrestles with the secret history hidden behind the jars of beautifully coloured sweets. Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams - a novel - with recipes.
Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Penny chews or hard boiled sweeties (you do get more for your money that way)? The jangle of your pocket money ...the rustle of the pink and green striped paper bag ...Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life, and her boyfriend Gerard, to sort out her elderly Aunt Lilian's sweetshop in a small country village is going to be dull. Boy, is she wrong. Lilian Hopkins has spent her life running Lipton's sweetshop, through wartime and family feuds. As she struggles with the idea that it might finally be time to settle up, she also wrestles with the secret history hidden behind the jars of beautifully coloured sweets. Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams - a novel - with recipes.
PWWI review: Score 2.5/5
We all thought this
was good book, but typical of the chick lit genre, so no real surprises.
Although we enjoyed the relationship between the main character, Rosie and her
Aunt Lilian, it did not inspire us to try any other Jenny Colgan
books. A nice bit of escapism.
Classic:
Synopsis: Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote
Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the
verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the
place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs
to a now-distant past.
PWWI review to follow!
