Books by Jenny Colgan

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Book SynopsisInvierno en la isla de Mure. El momento ideal para estar en casa, sentado en una butaca frente a la chimenea disfrutando de un trago de whisky con la gente que quieres. A menos que estés accidentalmente embarazada de tu exjefe (ahora tu novio) y no sepas cómo decírselo. En lo que debería ser la época de paz y amor por antonomasia, se tomará Joel las noticias de Flora como un regalo navideño?Rápida, divertida, conmovedora y bien dibujada. Daily MailUna inteligente e ingeniosa historia de amor. The Observer

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Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the setting of her beloved Little Beach Street Bakery series for a timely and heartfelt novel set in a Cornish seaside village.Marisa Rossi can?t understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses grandparents, right? Why is she taking it so badly?Retreating further and further from normal life, she moves to the end of the earth?the remote tidal island of Mount Polbearne, at the foot of Cornwall, hoping for peace and solitude, whilst carrying on her job as a registrar, dealing with births, weddings, and deaths, even as she feels life is passing her by.Unfortunately?or fortunately??the solitude she craves proves elusive. Between her noisy Russian piano-teaching neighbor, the bustle and community spirit of the tiny village struggling back to life after the quarantine, and the pressing need to help save the local bakery, can Marisa find her joy again at the end of the world?

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Book SynopsisFrom perennial bestseller Jenny Colgan comes this sugar-fueled Christmas treat of a novel, bursting with recipes and holiday cheer.Life is sweet for Issy Randall, owner of the Cupcake Cafe. Taught how to bake by her beloved late grandfather, she is proudly carrying on the family tradition with her London eatery. Not only is business thriving, the icing on the cupcake is that she also happens to be head over heels in love. Plus she’s surrounded and supported by close friends, even if her cupcake colleagues Pearl and Caroline don’t seem quite as upbeat about the upcoming season of snow and merriment.But when her boyfriend Austin is scouted for a possible move to New York, Issy is forced to contemplate the prospect of a long-distance romance. And when the Christmas rush at the cafe—with its increased demand for her delectable creations—begins to take its toll, Issy has to decide what she holds most dear.This December, Issy will have to rely on all her reserves of calm, courage, and cinnamon to make sure everyone has a merry Christmas, one way or another. . .Comes with the author''s own recipes for holiday sweet treats!

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Book SynopsisThe instant New York Times bestseller!?Sublime...Colgan infuses her latest book with humor, wit, suspense and a perfectly cast love triangle.?--USA TodayThe Christmas Bookshop is literary hot chocolate with a bourbon shot: hot, sweet but with a surprising emotional kick.--The Times (UK)Perfect for the holidays! A brand-new heartwarming Christmas novel from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop on the Corner and Christmas at the Island Hotel. Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. The prospect of spending Christmas with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia's perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered yuppie life does not appeal.Frankly, Sofia doesn't exactly want her prickly sister Carmen there either. But Sofia has yet another baby on the way, a mother desperate to see her daughters get along, and a client who needs help revitalizing his shabby old bookshop. So Carmen moves in and takes the job.Thrown rather suddenly into the inner workings of Mr. McCredie's ancient bookshop on the picturesque streets of historic Edinburgh, Carmen is intrigued despite herself. The store is dusty and disorganized but undeniably charming. Can she breathe some new life into it in time for Christmas shopping? What will happen when a famous and charismatic author takes a sudden interest in the bookshop and Carmen? And will the Christmas spirit be enough to help heal her fractured family?

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Book SynopsisThe first book of Jenny Colgan’s delightful new four-part series, set at a charming English boarding school on the sea.Maggie went to the window and opened it wide, inhaling the lovely salt air off the sea. Why had she never lived by the sea before? Why had she always looked out on housing estates and not the little white hulls of trawlers bobbing off in the distance?It’s gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding school by the sea. Maggie, the newest teacher at Downey House, is determined to make her mark. She’s delighted by her new teaching job, but will it come at the expense of her relationship with her safe, dependable boyfriend Stan?Simone is excited and nervous: she’s won a scholarship to the prestigious boarding school and wants to make her parents proud. Forced to share a room with the glossy, posh girls of Downey House, she needs to find a friend, fast

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Book SynopsisIt’s summer, but school is in session in the delightful second book of New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan’s utterly charming School by the Sea series, set at a girls’ boarding school in Cornwall.For the second year at Downey House, it''s getting harder and harder to stick to the rules . . .Maggie Adair’s first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success. After making the leap from an inner-city school in Glasgow, she’s learned to appreciate the mellower pace of the girls’ boarding school by the sea.Now engaged to her longtime boyfriend, sweet and steady Stan, Maggie’s just got to stop thinking about David McDonald, her colleague at the boys’ school down the road. Well, hasn’t she? Can Maggie take a leaf out of the Well Behaved Teacher’s exercise book and stick to her plan for a small but elegant wedding and settled life of matrimony?Even as Maggie tries to stay within the lines, rules are being broken all around her. Maggie’s boss, headmistress Veronica Deveral, has more to lose than anyone. When Daniel Stapleton joins the faculty, Veronica finds herself forced to confront a scandalous secret she thought she’d carefully buried forever. How long will she be able to keep her past under wraps?What does a new year of classes, rules, and camaraderie hold for the students and faculty at Downey House?

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Book SynopsisThe summer holiday brings new passion and new challenges in the enchanting third book of Jenny Colgan’s utterly delightful School by the Sea series, set at a girls’ boarding school in Cornwall.School is out, following a bit of saucy scandal at Downey House...Beloved high school teacher Maggie Adair had been comfortably, if somewhat ambivalently, engaged to her dependable long-distance boyfriend Stan. But in the heat of summer, Maggie’s attraction to her colleague David McDonald has caught fire. Now both are facing an uncertain future as they try to figure out how to stay committed to their careers—and each other.Meanwhile, the girls of Downey House—mercurial Fliss, glamorous Alice, and shy, hard-working Simone—have had long summers at home, which weren’t quite the respite they had been hoping for. But the new school year is thankfully here, and i

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Book SynopsisFlora está absolutamente segura de que escapar de la tranquila isla escocesa donde creció al ruido y el ajetreo de Londres fue la elección correcta. Qué habría sido de su vida si se hubiera quedado en Mure? Allí todos la conocían de toda la vida y nadie le permitiría olvidar el pasado. En la ciudad puede seranónima, ambiciosa en su trabajo en un importante despacho de abogados, y deleitarse en su desesperado enamoramiento de su fabuloso jefe, Joel. Cuando un nuevo cliente requiere la presencia de Flora en Mure, de repente se encuentra de nuevo en su hogar, en su vida de antes: la vida con sus hermanos, todos fornidos, ruidosos y aparentemente incapaces de realizar las tareas domésticas básicas, y su padre. Mientras Flora disfruta de su nuevo amor por la cocina y da vida a la pequeña y polvorienta tienda del puerto convirtiéndola en un pequeño café llamado Un rincón junto al mar, también tendrá que aceptar los errores del pasado y averiguar exactamente dónde está su futuro...

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