Coming Home to the Comfort Food Café by Debbie JohnsonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Zoe's best friend Kate died, leaving her the guardian to Kate's teenage daughter Martha. Despite the fact that Zoe has been Kate's best friend since they were at school and has been there helping to raise Martha from the day she was born , things aren't going well. Zoe is overwhelmed and Martha is dealing with her grief like a typical British teen by bunking off school, dressing like a goth, drinking too much and dabbling with drugs.
In an attempt to get Zoe away from unhealthy influences before her teenage rebellion leads her into something worse and/or destroys her career prospects, she decides to relocate the two of them from their home in Bristol to a holiday cottage in Budbury, Dorset.
Expecting the countryside to be full of boring yokels Zoe and Martha are blown away by the wacky residents of Budbury - as someone who hasn't read the previous books in this series I was too. But as Zoe and Martha begin to settle in to the village and make friends, Martha's father makes a appearance.
I loved this book, it had a Gilmore Girls kind of vibe (of course other than that one incident when she first started seeing Logan, Rory would never do what Martha did), Zoe and Martha are spiky and real, the characters they meet are quirky and fun. I want to move to Dorset and drink coffee at the Comfort Food Cafe. It was funny, and touching and realistic and sweet and each part of the book was named after a David Bowie song.
I will definitely look out for the previous books in this series.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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