Category: Fiction / General Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Publication date: 29 March 2012 Number of pages: 496 Prizes:
Shortlisted for Romantic Novelists' Association Award 2013.
Description:
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.
What the papers say: This delightful, nostalgia-inducing story is utterly charming - and left us craving a paper bag stuffed with treats! Closer A fabulously sweet concoction of warmth, wit and lip-smacking childhood treats. Willy Wonka would be proud Candis A cute and cosy read ... indulge your sweet tooth with this touching tale Heat Sweeter than a bag of jelly beans ... had us eating up every page Cosmopolitan
Author's Biography: Jenny Colgan is the author of eleven bestselling novels - most recently Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe. She is married with three children and lives in London and France. For more about Jenny, visit her website and her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter, @jennycolgan.
