I didn't enjoy this quite as much as Colgan's other books (overload, maybe?), but it was cute novel featuring the parallel stories of Anna Trent and her former French teacher, Claire Shawcross. Anna is aimless, unfulfilled, and simply treading water in her life and relationship when she is injured in freak accident in the chocolate factory in which she works. Her accident results in a long sojourn in the local hospital after she loses two of her toes to an infection that she apparently picked up at the hospital. Her roommate is Claire, Anna's former French teacher. Anna was a mediocre student at best, but Claire saw promise and begins to tutor Anna, despite the pain of chemotherapy and her losing battle with cancer.
Claire has long held a torch for Thierry, the handsome young chocolatier who stole her heart the summer of her 18th year when she was working as an au pair in Paris. After her return to England, Claire never heard from Thierry again, but despite her reasonably happy marriage, which ended in divorce, and her two sons, she has always wanted to return to Paris and find out what happened. Through friends, she arranges a job for Anna in Thierry's Chocolate Shop in Paris. Anna has issues with her new deformity and has lost her job in the factory, so she travels to Paris to try out a new life. Of course, things don't work out exactly as planned.
This is a novel of healing, new beginnings, and tying up loose ends. I enjoyed it, but I think that I never really connected with Anna, which is probably because of me rather than the author. If you have enjoyed jenny Colgan's novels before, you'll like this one, too.
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