The Bookshop On Rosemary Lane By Ellen Berry

[amazon_link id=”000815712X” target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]’The Bookshop On Rosemary Lane’ is the latest book by Ellen Berry.

Kitty Cartwright has always solved her problems in the kitchen. Her cookbooks are her life, and there isn’t an issue that ‘Cooking with Aspic’ can’t fix. Her only wish is that she had a book entitled ‘Rustling Up Dinner When Your Husband Has Left You’. On Rosemary Lane, Della Cartwright plans to open a very special little bookshop. Not knowing what to do with the hundreds of cookbooks her mother left her, she now wants to share their recipes with the world – and no amount of aspic will stand in her way. But with her family convinced it’s a hare-brained scheme, Della starts to wonder if she’s made a terrible decision. One thing’s for sure: she’s about to find out…

‘The Bookshop On Rosemary Lane’ is the first book that Fiona Gibson has written under her new pseudonym Ellen Berry and like her previous books, this book was packed with her familiar warmth and gentle narrative.

The story is mainly seen through the eyes of Della Cartwright, whose life has recently come under a lot of upheaval with the death of her mother, her only child leaving for university so feeling at a loss, she finds solace in her mother’s hundreds of cookery books, the only thing that Della has claimed since her mother, Kitty’s death. With the house coming down with cookery books of all descriptions, much to the frustration of the husband Mark and her daughter Sophie, Della decides to open her own bookshop when a shop becomes vacant in the village and sell all the recipe books that have taken over the house.

The story then follows Della as she embarks on her venture, her daughter flies the nest and she has to deal with suddenly not being her daughter’s priority and her marriage goes into jeopardy, Della deals with all these issues as well as open her own bookshop.

I loved Della, she was a lovely, warmhearted character with a huge heart, not afraid of hard work and chasing her dreams, she’s an inspirational woman as she shows that it’s never too late to start over. There’s also a sweet injection of mystery to the tale, as Della delves into her mother’s cookbooks, she realises that her mother and childhood wasn’t as it seemed and Della also finds herself on a journey of uncovering the mysterious names in her mother’s recipe books.

Sweetly written, with fun and engaging characters, ‘The Bookshop On Rosemary Lane’ is a exquisite story that flows at a gentle pace and made for warm reading, I look forward to Ellen’s future novels.

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