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The Cake Shop in the Garden

By: Carole Matthews
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
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About this listen

Fay Merryweather runs her cake shop from her beautiful garden. She whips up airy sponges and scrumptious scones while her customers enjoy the lovely blossoms and gorgeous blooms. Looking after the cake shop, the garden, and her cantankerous mother means Fay is always busy, but she accepts her responsibilities because if she doesn't do all this, who will?

Then Danny Wilde walks into her life and makes Fay question every decision she's ever made.

When a sudden tragedy strikes, Fay's entire world is thrown off balance even further, and she doesn't know which way to turn.

Can Fay find the strength to make a life-changing decision - even if it means giving up the thing she loves the most?

Life, love, and family are about to collide in The Cake Shop in the Garden.

©2015 Carole Matthews (P)2015 Isis Audiobooks Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Feel-Good Heartfelt

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Critic reviews

"A wonderful story of friendship and romance." (Katie Fforde)
"Full of joy and laughter." (Trisha Ashley)
"The perfect escape". ( Woman)
"Simply brilliant." ( Closer)
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This story is okay if you're running towards the end of your library and are in desperate need of some background noise, but that's about it.


There are parts of the story which are left unfinished and as such it seems pointless they are even mentioned in the book at all. After the "sudden tragedy" the story takes a turn for the worse and the majority of the events that follow made me feel like I was re-reading Cinderella... A knock off version you'd find in a bargain books corner.


The majority of the characters are one dimensional and have no real depth, sadly this includes the main character, Fay, who could easily be replaced by an old doormat. The only real selling point for this book are the two minor characters, Lija who adds humour and Stan who adds wisdom, which Fay clearly lacks.


I was also pretty disappointed at the lack of cake and food description, given the cover and title of the book I was hoping for more. That being said, I was hoping for more in every sense with this book so it's not a surprise even the cake lacked flavour.

Boring and way too long.

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Really lovely story, characters show a lot of every day emotions and characters from all sorts of backgrounds.

Lots of family dramas and a good little twist in the middle.

A lovely story.

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Although the author refers frequently to the main characters age as if she is ancient she is in fact only in her 40s, but they chose a narrator who sounds over 70. An odd choice that made it very hard to work out what was happening to begin with. I stuck with it until the end as it was an easy listen but I could just have easily given up ,quite dull overall.

wrong choice for narrator

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The character seemed like another 10 years beyond the 40 odd years. She behaved like she was at least 50 and sounded like it too.

Add 10 years

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Lovely story, easy read or audio, girlie book, downloading another of Carols stories to see me through the chilly February evenings.

A Comfort Read.

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Loved - narration, story, characters, speed, that it was full of joy, tears and hope
Didn’t like - the fact that I wasn’t living on a narrow boat
Off to listen to the next one now <3

So lovely I bought the next one straight away!

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Voice of main character would have suited someone much much older. Main character was irritating and weak at start of book and her love interest was not endearing but came across as controlling and selfish. By the end of the book the main character was also incredibly selfish and I was horrified that she let her best friend and saviour down for a man! The best ending should have been completely different.

Irritating

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Not my favourite Carole Matthews book. A little dull in places and too long. The narrator also sounded too old for the main character.

Too long!

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The reader wasn't great - too old and her accents were hopeless. Story was pleasant and an easy summery listen. The lead character was frustrating at times but it was nice enough.

Easy listening, no great literary work!

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Having read several Katie Fford books read by Jilly Bond I was looking for something similar. The Cake Shop in the Garden is possibly slightly better.
Chapters are much shorter which is possibly better as it's easier to pause more frequently if busy whilst listening.

Certainly one of my favourites.

What a brilliant find 😊

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