The Lemon Tree Café: The Heart-warming Sunday Times Bestseller

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Located in the heart of Wymondham within easy walking distance of the abbey and the train station, The Lemon Tree serves freshly-prepared, homemade food that is made using local-sourced produce where ever possible. The writing was good, but it just stretched on for no reason, it could have been easily written within 300 pages. I just hope that Miss Bramley is not turning into the second Paige Toon and all of her future books will be like this. I bought the Mixed Selection Box of brownies for my son’s 30th birthday as an extra treat for the day. You can’t go wrong with a Cathy Bramley book, you just know your going to get a real corker and this story did not disappoint.

The reason I only gave it 2 stars is due to the way the author handled a sensitive storyline, I felt that the way it was dealt with let the book, author and most importantly any victims of that issue down and it ruined the book for me. Despite this it should have been solid three stars but quite frankly I couldn't bring myself to rate a book highly when it contains the justification of rape because someone is unhappy with themselves {in this case their gender}, rape is rape and can never be justified and as for someone becoming friends with their rapist. Nicknamed Mr Manchester, he transformed the Northern music scene as founder of Factory Records and the Hacienda nightclub after earning a cult following as a television presenter. The characters hit rock bottom, just like it happens with us, they sometimes lose all their hopes but they never lose their spirits, and this is why I admire and adore them so much. to share a tray bake which meant we had to have the same, which was actually the best bit as it was bought in so it was a pity you couldn't get one each, no fruit scones just plain ones, they were tasteless.Strong characters, twists and turns that you weren't expecting full of humour and tears a delightful read. Relatable characters that had me chuckling away as usual with Cathy's stories, I enjoyed reading more about Gabe, Noah and new character Rosie.

Whilst the majority of this book was a great read, in particular the part set in Italy I struggled with the predictable themes of; Financial difficulty, failed and new romances, secrets and leaving on job for another more suitable. Also, towards the end of the book everyone always tells her how brave she is and how great she is and how I don't what she also is. The Lemon Tree Café offers breakfast, morning coffee, homemade cakes and bakes, pastries, light bites served all day, lunches, afternoon teas, Kentish cream teas, delicious desserts and drinks and wine. I know I've said once that Gabe is not my favourite character - because Gabe was already introduced to us in "The Plumberry School of Comfort Food" and well. Our lunchtime favourites are very popular such as homemade steak and ale pie, liver and bacon with leek and onion mash, we even have a hot dessert of the day.

I live with my family in a small village just outside the city, our house overlooks fields of barley in one direction and horses in the other, and our garden is full of fruit trees: damson; plum; pear and of course, Bramley apples! And of course, as this book is about an Italian cafe, there are plenty of deliciously sounding descriptions of food, as well as some great recipes at the end of the story. I also noticed bottled beers in the fridge, ranging from Birra Moretti and Peroni, to Saxby’s cider and Wildwood spiced ales. Rosie is hiding a terribly upsetting secret from everyone, and soon decides that it's time to come clean and let those closest to her know what happened to her all those years ago. is the perfect setting for enjoying breakfast, lunch with a glass of wine, dinner and everything in between.

This book is about Rosie, who quits her job out of stupid reasons and starts helping out in her grandmother's lovely café. Of course initially this book was published as a four - part - series but I am incredibly happy to have waited for the whole story being published as one gorgeous novel.But there was this weird preachy tone of the book where Rosie would learn what a bad person she was or something (even though i didn't see this) and it even seeped into this storyline. This is run by her Italian grandmother and after feeling a bit worried about how her grandmother is coping now that she's 75, Rosie decides to stay and work at the cafe for a little while, as a way of secretly helping out when her nonna isn't looking. It was a quiet Wednesday afternoon and they had extra seating set up outside as the weather was nice – so now was my time to strike!

But she is haunted by a terrible secret, one that even the appearance of a handsome new face can’t quite help her move on from.A few difficult themes, but I liked this story of Rosie who leaves her high powered job to work in her grandmother's Italian themed cafe in a small village. From about the 50% mark onwards the book was impossible to put down, as I was already engrossed with the characters, and the story just seemed to ramp up as it progressed. My favourite character was Nonna and her 'dicky head' comments, but I also found Lia (protagonist Rosie's sister) a relatable character, trying to balance motherhood and a career.