Sweet Pastries & Sourdough, Little Duck Pond Cafe by Rosie Green

Sweet Pastries & Sourdough, Little Duck Pond Café

Ellie's brand new enterprise, the True Loaf Bakery, is finally open and classes are due to start. But when Katja's ski-ing holiday ends in disaster, a new teacher must be found very quickly.
Anita is up for the challenge, but - fresh from a break-up and an operation that's left her feeling physically and emotionally vulnerable - the last thing she's looking for when she moves to Sunnybrook is a new relationship. So it's Sod's law that she should find herself with not one but two guys vying for her attention. 

Sven, from Denmark, is a bit of an enigma - but maybe passion lurks beneath his cool reserve?
And as for twenty-five-year-old football coach Ross - surely she'd be asking for trouble getting involved with a gorgeous man a decade her junior? (Although her football-mad son Rufus seems to love him.)
Moving in with Bertha proves a real comfort - but can Anita get to the bottom of what's troubling the older woman?
Anita's job at the True Loaf Bakery is only temporary, but she finds herself drawn ever deeper into life in the village - especially when she finds a child's bracelet from long ago, in the rubble of the newly-renovated building. Solving the mystery of who it belongs to takes Anita on a journey of discovery - a journey that might just help her discover what her own heart really needs...

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What a sweet treat to return to Sunnnybrook and all our friends at the Little Duck Pond cafe!

Ellie and Zak have finished conversions on their latest property and the True Loaf bakery and school is set to open. When Katja, who is supposed to teach, breaks a leg, Anita is called in to substitute.

It could not come at a better time for Anita, who has just learned in a horrid (for her) way that her marriage is truly over. Those of us watching from the sidelines are able to laugh over it.

She has an adorable four year old son to focus on, and, sadly, a very irritating case of early menopause creates quite the distraction as she tries valiantly to settle into her new life.

Besides the marital drama, there is a mystery to be solved and all sorts of relationship issues pop up, not only for Anita. 

This is a beautiful story of friendship and how family can be created in many different ways.

It covers following your dreams, not settling, and facing your fears and difficulties.

I always love my visits with Rosie Green's characters. I wish I could live in Sunnybrook and enjoy chats and pastries at the Little Duck Pond Cafe.

Rosie has been scribbling stories ever since she was little.

Back then, they were rip-roaring adventure tales with a young heroine in perilous danger of falling off a cliff or being tied up by 'the baddies'.

Thankfully, Rosie has moved on somewhat, and now much prefers to write romantic comedies that melt your heart and make you smile, with really not much perilous danger involved at all - unless you count the heroine losing her heart in love.

Her series of novellas is centred around life in a village cafe.

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