I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again...I love Jenny Colgan's novels! This one is set on the fictional island of Muir, off the northern coast of Scotland. Flora left the island after her mother's death, feeling that there was nothing left there for her. In London, where she works as a paralegal, she "enjoys" a life of cramped quarters, noise, near poverty, and grime. She also has a hopeless crush on her womanizing boss. When she is assigned to travel back to Muir to convince the natives that the giant resort being planned by a multi-millionaire at the tip of the island is actually a GOOD thing, she reluctantly revisits her past and gets reacquainted with her father and brothers, whom she hasn't seen for 3 years.
Being back on the island brings back memories, bitter and good, and also reawakens Flora's passion for baking. When she is asked to refurbish and open a cafe in the center of town, she is drawn even more deeply into the life and culture she thought she had escaped, but is this really a bad thing?
In true Colgan style, the reader is treated to whimsical, quirky characters, a heroine who manages to find herself, and a setting so breath-taking that you will want to catch the next plane to Scotland to check out its real-life counterparts.
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