Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan held a special attraction for me because it includes a grown daughter estranged from her biological father. I have an estranged daughter (Facebook: Find Heather Jasmine), and like the girl in the book, her mother does not want to see a reunion. Like all other relationships in this book, this one has a happy ending, and I hope for a similar resolution for my story.Polly lives in a lighthouse and runs a bakery on a tidal island off the coast of Cornwall (southwest England). She lives with her fiancé Huckle and a pet puffin named Neil. What is a tidal island? It is an island at high tide and connected to the mainland at low tide.
If you imagine running a bakery on a small island, living in a lighthouse, and having a pet seabird, is just the cutest thing ever, you will not be disappointed with this book.
“…they were totally ridiculous, clinging to a rock in the middle of the sea and refusing to move to modern identical boxes on the mainland, all neat and tidy and squared away for the convenience of the NHS (National Health Service) and the local council and the postman and the people who picked up the bins (garbage cans).”The book includes so many cute couples.
Awkward Jayden works in the bakery and wants to marry his shy girlfriend Flora. They are 23 and 20 respectively.
Bernard runs the nearly-bankrupt Puffin sanctuary and is sweet on Selina who makes jewelry and lives above the bakery.
Kerensa and Reuben are married. She was a charity student with Polly growing up. Reuben is unbelievably (literally) rich. She is pregnant.
When these couples are not being cute, there is time to find humor in the behavior of rich people (Reuben and his family).
The author is British, and the book includes a sprinkling a British terms and references. The most surprising term was mimsy, which from context the reader can infer means the same as the British slang fanny.
If you are looking for a happy Christmas story, I highly recommend this book.
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