Title: The Seafront Tea RoomAuthor: Vanessa Greene
Published by: Berkley Publishing on Dec. 1, 2015
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction
Pages: 353
Format: Paperback
Source: Purchased
Book Rating: 7.5/10
The first rule of afternoon tea: never rush. Take time to savor it. Just like friendship…
The Seafront Tearoom is an insider secret in small-town Scarborough – a beach-front haven with the best tea and cakes in town – and journalist Charlie Harrison would love to put it on the map with a feature in her magazine. But single mom Kat Murray doesn’t want to see her favorite sanctuary overrun by tourists, and begs Charlie to seek out other options. She offers her help, as a “tea obsessive,” and so does French au pair Séraphine Moreau, whose upbringing makes her a connoisseur of everything sweet and indulgent.
Together the three women will scour the countryside for quaint hideaways and hidden gems, sharing along the way their secrets, disappointments, and dreams – and discovering that friendship, like tea, takes time to steep. But learning too that once you open your heart, the possibilities are endless.
Review:
This is a warm, sweet story about family, friendship, heartbreak, and love.
It has lovable characters, exquisite description, a wonderful seaside setting, and lots of tea and cakes.
It is a light, easy read. Perfect for a day at the beach or a cool day snuggled up on the couch.
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About Vanessa Greene
Vanessa Greene is a writer of romantic fiction, and lover of tea, cake and car boot sales. She grew up in north London, the youngest of three children, and always wanted to be a writer. Back then she wrote whenever it was quiet, in her room at dawn before school, in the shed full of spiders and in the cellar.
She studied English at university in Brighton then went into publishing – She was a book editor through her twenties, before picking up a pen again at thirty-one and writing The Vintage Teacup Club. Along the way she's also taught English as a foreign language in Mexico and Ecuador, and learned to tango in Buenos Aires.
She lives in London (in a pink house) with her husband and toddler son.
