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    Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop: A Novel
    Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop: A Novel
    Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop: A Novel
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    Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop: A Novel

    Written by Jenny Colgan

    Narrated by Lucy Price-Lewis

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    About this audiobook

    Fans of Debbie Macomber and Jojo Moyes will love this warm, funny, moving holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling author of Christmas at the Cupcake Café and Little Beach Street Bakery.

    A nip in the air, chiming bells and carolers, and the genial glow of love and family. But for this English village, it’s going to be a Christmas to remember in ways it never expected...

    In her comfy cottage nestled in the Derbyshire hills, Rosie Hopkins has good reason to feel a warm blush in her cheeks. With Christmas weeks away, the holiday is being ushered in with England’s first glorious snowfall of the season. Her boyfriend Stephen is starting his new job as a teacher in the village school. Her quaint Sweetshop and Confectionery has been restored to its former glory, and she has a loveable mop of a new puppy named Mr. Dog. Most joyous of all, Rosie and Stephen’s relatives will finally be gathering together in Lipton for what is sure to be a merry feast.

    But when a devastating tragedy strikes at the heart of the close-knit town, plans for a cozy Christmas are suddenly in danger of melting away. It’s going to take Rosie’s indomitable spirit, the embrace of family and friends, and the resilient good will of a community to turn it all around and make this a holiday to be thankful for.

    Soulful, emotional, uplifting, and complete with recipes for delicious wintry treats, Christmas at Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop is a perfect gift for listeners.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateOct 15, 2019
    ISBN9780062960481
    Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop: A Novel
    Author

    Jenny Colgan

    Jenny Colgan is Scottish born and bred, born in Ayrshire in 1972. After graduating from Edinburgh University, Jenny worked for six years in the health service whist moonlighting as a cartoonist and doing stand-up in the outer fringes of London’s comedy circuit.

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    • 5/5
      How am just discovering this book now? Loved it! Jenny Colgan is at her best and Lucy Price Lewis is the very best as the narrator. She truly seems to know the characters and brings them to life the way Jenny Colgan creates them. There’s so much heart and humor, it’s hard not to love all of them…flaws and all. Hands down the best combination of author and narrator. Please never stop writing these books. Thanks.
    • 2/5
      It's Christmas time in Lipton, England, a small town with a wonderful shop full of candy owned by Rosie Hopkins, who took over the place from her ailing aunt, Lilian. The story shows us Rosie's relationship with her aunt and, also, with her boyfriend and all of her crazy family, who fly in from Australia, to spend the holiday with her. Lots of tragedy but then even more happiness happens during this Christmas season.
    • 4/5
      ... waiting for the next story about Rosie Hopkins. Really nice, cosy, christmassy book!
    • 4/5
      Revisits the story from Sweetshop of Dreams with some twists, now you know the characters, now they're snowed in. Stephen is starting teaching when a truck collides with the school, landing Stephen in hospital and Edison seriously injured. Then a man joins the home Lilian is in, and Lilian is convinced she knows him from somewhere and Rosie's family have decided to visit from Australia, for Christmas.The future could change everything.It's fun, light stuff but entertaining.
    • 1/5
      This one started really well but went completely downhill once the writer decided to introduce Rosie's paranoia of a family. And the worst thing is that she allowed her heroine to become totally inconsistent to herself and her principles. She became a vulnerable, meek creature, manipulated by that thing she called ''mother''. It was beyond cringe-worthy, it was painful...I kept reading to see whether Rosie would have the guts to utter a proper punch line to her mother and put her in her place, but it didn't happen...

      I began to doubt whether she was worthy of Stephen, and most of all, whether she had the will to grasp her life into her hands. Plus, the Henry Carr sub-plot was highly implausible. It seemed to exist just for the sake of added - and utterly failing- melodrama.

      Not even close to the first book. It was as if it had been written by a different writer.
    • 4/5
      A sugary sweet holiday story filled with so many things I love about Christmas. Romance, community, fun, and great characters. Oh how I love a story centering around Christmastime!I received this book via LibraryThing's early reviewer program. A positive review was not required.