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    Summer at the Comfort Food Café

    By Debbie Johnson

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    ‘Full of quirky characters, friendship and humour, you will devour this engaging and heartwarming novel in one sitting’ Sunday Express S Magazine

    Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you raid the pantry in the middle of the night…

    The Comfort Food Cafe is perched on a windswept clifftop at what feels like the edge of the world, serving up the most delicious cream teas; beautifully baked breads, and carefully crafted cupcakes. For tourists and locals alike, the ramshackle cafe overlooking the beach is a beacon of laughter, companionship, and security – a place like no other; a place that offers friendship as a daily special, and where a hearty welcome is always on the menu.

    For widowed mum-of-two Laura Walker, the decision to uproot her teenaged children and make the trek from Manchester to Dorset for the summer isn’t one she takes lightly, and it’s certainly not winning her any awards from her kids, Nate and Lizzie. Even her own parents think she’s gone mad.

    Her new job at the cafe, and the hilarious people she meets there, give Laura the chance she needs to make new friends; to learn to be herself again, and – just possibly – to learn to love again as well.

    For her, the Comfort Food Cafe doesn’t just serve food – it serves a second chance to live her life to the full…

    What readers are saying about Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe:

    ‘My new favourite author’ – Holly Martin, bestselling author of Summer at Rose Island

    'A lovely, emotion-filled, giggle-inducing story' – Sunday Times bestselling author Milly Johnson

    ‘A book of hope and solidarity, friendship and humour and the belief that everything might just turn out okay after all’ – Sophie, Reviewed the Book

    ‘If this book had arms it would grab you and pull you in to the most amazing book ever… just magical’ – Lisa Talks About

    ‘An engaging, entertaining and loveable book’ – Rae’s Reads

    ‘I wish I could actually go there… an original story and it has such a romantic ending’ – With Love for Books

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateApr 29, 2016
    ISBN9780008150242
    Author

    Debbie Johnson

    Debbie Johnson is a best-selling author who lives and works in Liverpool, where she divides her time between writing, caring for a small tribe of children and animals, and not doing the housework. Her books include The Birthday That Changed Everything, Pippa’s Cornish Dream, and Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe, all published by HarperCollins. Follow her on twitter @debbiemjohnson, or at www.facebook.com/debbiejohnsonauthor – but be warned, she mainly talks about dogs.

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      I think this book should have a cover that screams comfort rather than romance. It won't win any awards but for me it was the ideal light summer escape. Laura is thirty-five, the mother of a fourteen year old daughter, a twelve year old son, owns a black lab near the end of his life and is a widow of 2 years. She's a good cook but goes out of character when she applies for a summer a cooking job. It isn't in Manchester where they live but in Dorset near a small village on the coast. The cafe has a distinctive name, The Comfort Food Cafe, and the advertisement was titled Cook Wanted - Must Be Comforting. There was no application to send, those interested had to "send your heart and soul" in a letter. Laura spilled her heart out and got the job. Her children were furious they would be spending summer away from their friends and didn't make the four hour drive from Manchester to the seaside of Dorset quietly.What follows is pretty predictable. The cafe, it's owner, and the regular customers turn out to be quirky but very likable rather than ridiculous. The summer romance is with a perfect man but he's a kind veterinarian and likeable too. By the end of summer a lot has changed and life ahead doesn't look as daunting to Larua as it had before. In the end we're set up for the next in the series but this stands alone fine. A quick read, I found it very enjoyable.