Can a cake change your life?
Clemmie Rose’s great-great-grandmother’s beloved clementine torte is her ticket to the prestigious Royal Baking Competition. A win could put Puffin Island’s charming Café on the Coast on the map, land Clemmie her very own cookbook deal, and secure her a coveted invitation to a royal garden party.
But when she discovers the competition is being hosted aboard the Royal Yacht by none other than her ex, Oliver Lockwood, the stakes – and the soufflés –suddenly rise, and Clemmie’s bid for the Golden Whisk trophy is at risk of collapsing like an underbaked sponge.
When a decades-old secret is thrown into the mix, she’ll need more than the perfect recipe to keep her dreams from crumbling.
I have read a few of Christie Barlow's books before however I must have been living under a rock because I had already started reading this book before I found out it is actually book 4 in the Puffin Island series!
Not to panic though as I seemed to read The Cafe on the Coast easily enough as a stand-alone I can only assume I would have felt like more of the community having got to know some of the characters already in the previous books.
My absolute weakness when it comes to books are romances set in cafes, bakeries and bookstores so this book being a romance set in cafe was always going to tick a lot of boxes for me but add to that the challenge of a Royal Bake Off and some hidden family secrets and this book really hit the mark.
Puffin Island is a glorious setting giving that instantly welcoming community vibe and our main character Clemmie sure has some supportive friends and family around her. I loved watching this girl next door woman have her Pretty woman moment. The will they wont they romance that burned between Clemmie and Oliver kept me guessing wondering if and how this relationship was ever going to work when both had such strong ideas and goal to achieve.
I really enjoyed this book and I will now crawl out from my rock and go and read the previous books in this series too.
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