Cathy's Christmas Kitchen by Tilly TennantMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was pleasant enough but it didn't blow me away.
Cathy has spent the last few years looking after her terminally ill mother, it cost her practically everything, her friends, her career, and her fiancé. Now her mother has died, Cathy is facing her first Christmas alone, her only solace the baking she used to do with her mother. Then a chance meeting leads to her agreeing to host baking classes at the local Church hall. Her students are a motley crew of OAPs, single men, married women and one truculent teenager, Tansy, who seems determined to antagonise everyone else.
Cathy meets a man walking his dog along the path she takes to her part-time job assisting the local florist and they hit it off straight away, but then her ex-fiancé starts hanging around the florist's stall, buying flowers for his wife - what will she choose old love or new?
I'll be honest, I'm not a fan of the shy, retiring heroine with zero life-experience and no friends who somehow suddenly becomes popular, its a little too twee and cosy for me. If you like cosy romances then I guess you would love this. Also I thought Cathy was a little clueless and unsympathetic about Tansy - has she never met a teenage girl before? Most of them are toxic.
Anyway, pleasant enough but a bit gingerbread when I'm more banana bread.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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