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Summer at the Ice Cream Café
Oct 18, 2024 4:35 AM

Author:Jo Thomas

Summer at the Ice Cream Café

'Full of love and warmth, tears and laughter, another gorgeous book from Jo Thomas' Katie Fforde

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A dream home

Beca Valentino is ready to escape the city. When she sees the perfect house for sale in her hometown, it seems like fate. Is this her chance to build the foster family she dreams of, on the beautiful Pembrokeshire coast?

A big mistake?

Returning home isn't as easy as she thought, however. Her family's beloved ice cream café is gone - turned into a soulless wine bar by her hateful ex-boyfriend. Reconnecting with her oldest friend, fisherman Griff, isn't straightforward either. And when, instead of the children she expected to take in, two wary teenage boys appear on her doorstep, Beca fears she's made a terrible mistake.

A recipe for change

But an old family recipe book is just the inspiration she needs. Soon, with a little help from friends old and new, Beca is selling mouth-watering homemade gelato from a pop-up café on the beach.

Then disaster strikes. Will the Valentino family legacy be lost forever? Or can Beca create a new recipe for happiness?

Reviews

Full of love and warmth, tears and laughter, another gorgeous book from Jo Thomas

—— Katie Fforde

Another winner from Jo Thomas, gorgeously evocative, happy-making and full of love!

—— Jill Mansell

This story of friendship, family and community is guaranteed to lift your spirits.

—— Good Housekeeping

Delicious and delightful - Jo sweeps you away to a better place with every book, which are always filled with warmth, love and a big spoonful of happiness

—— Veronica Henry

The ultimate seaside escape story

—— Woman and Home

A delicious and touching summery read in a beautiful setting that Jo's fans will simply adore

—— Phillipa Ashley

We love the way Jo's glorious novels always transport you to somewhere beautiful, and [Summer at the Ice Cream Cafe] is no exception . . . This touching novel, full of love and hope, is an uplifting summer read.

—— My Weekly

A warm-hearted treat

—— Best magazine

Picking up a Jo Thomas book is a treat for the senses. With sumptuous food and a romantic outcome, Summer at the Ice Cream Cafe is another winner to satisfy your appetite this summer.

—— People's Friend

An uplifting, summery comfort read that will tug on your heartstrings and leave you with a big smile

—— Rebecca Raisin

A feel-good story about finding your place in the community

—— Coast magazine

This warm-hearted, uplifting story is filled with happiness, summer sun and ice cream. It's the perfect holiday read.

—— Daily Record

The perfect summer romance novel to give you butterflies, celebrating all things sunshine, the seaside and ice cream - yes please!

—— Chat magazine

The perfect summer read to pack in your suitcase

—— Candis

A lovely, heart-warming read

—— Culturefly

A perfect read for your holiday

—— That's Life!

This is the ultimate summer seaside getaway read

—— Woman

Irresistible comfort read

—— Glamour

Honest and beautifully written

—— Woman & Home

Noble is the mistress of the tearjerking message of love

—— Express

A moving and warm-hearted story of friendship and love . . . Elizabeth Noble writes wonderfully real and relatable characters and then puts their lives under the microscope, weaving their stories with tenderness and humanity

—— Yours Magazine

Other People's Husbands is a compelling, honest and uplifting tale which will have you hooked from first page to last

—— Lancashire Evening Post

An artful game of distortion... Clever handling

—— Anthony Quinn , Mail on Sunday

A curious piece of autobiographical fiction

—— David Sexton , Evening Standard

A wisecracking thriller hightailing between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage credentials thrown in... This is ultimately a book about writing, wordplay and knowingness

—— Catherine Taylor , Sunday Telegraph

No contemporary novelist is more enthralled by what goes on inside the human skull than Ian McEwan... Sweet Tooth, which juxtaposes contrasting casts of mind, reminds you that, as well as intelligence, the intelligence service fascinates McEwan... Always excellent at conjuring up places and periods on the cusp of dramatic change... McEwan atmospherically resurrects the strife-ridden Britain of 1972 -73... Similarities and contrasts between the mentality and mind games of the secret service and those of the creative writer are increasingly brought to the fore. Doubling back and forth across genre boundaries, Sweet Tooth takes risks: narrative loiterings and twists whose purpose isn’t at first apparent, a payoff that is long delayed. But – ideally read more than once – this acute, witty novel is a winningly cunning addition to McEwan’s fictional surveys of intelligence

—— Peter Kemp , Sunday Time

Must read... Intrigue, love and mutual betrayal by a master of the art

—— The Lady

The great thing about McEwan is that, despite his success, he continues to work hard, producing ever more accessible and entertaining stories

—— Henry Sutton , Daily Mirror

Carefully researched

—— John Scarlett , Daily Telegraph

McEwan, as always, presents an engaging narrator... The plot is fantastic... McEwan plays with the readers expectations, and surpasses them all with a fabulous ending that makes me itch to re-read this superb novel all over again. Sweet Tooth marks another triumph for a brilliant British author

—— Bookgeeks.co.uk

A pleasing, tricksy beast with a subsumed sense of metatextuality likely to be pleasing to his fans

—— Bookmunch

Adroitly done...highly diverting

—— D.J. Taylor , Literary Review

A triumphant shedding of genre limitations

—— Adam Mars-Jones , London Review of Books

This most cunning of authors entertains and manipulates his readers. Sweet Tooth is a masterclass in the art of fiction

—— Paul Sidey , Book Oxygen

Ian McEwan is getting better and better… Supremely tense, intellectually sharp, and honed as hell

—— William Leith , Evening Standard

McEwan’ssmoothly contrived thriller hightails between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage credentials thrown in

—— Sunday Telegraph Seven

An expertly crafted thriller written with a bucketload of suspense and wit

—— Hannah Britt , Daily Express

As richly textured as anything Ian McEwan has written

—— Mai

Brilliantly cunning… It’s a story of love, betrayal and duplicity, with the most startling deception reserved for the final pages

—— Mail on Sunday (You)

Playful, clever, knowing and full of stories

—— Absolutely Chelsea

Supremely tense, intellectually sharp, and honed as hell

—— William Leith , Scotsman

Beyond virtuoso twists and turns, McEwan lays out the foreign landscape of 40 years ago – from smoky pubs to fuming punditry – with wry, affectionate panache

—— Boyd Tonkin , i

Tricksy, but satisfying

—— Justin Cartwright , Observer

The sense of narrative purpose exerts its pull from the first

—— John Mullan , Guardian
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