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The Christmas Cafe

The Christmas Cafe

Author(s): Amanda Prowse

Location(s): Edinburgh, Sydney

Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Era(s): Modern

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Bea does not believe in second chances.

A widow at fifty-three, Bea knows she must accept that she will be alone forever. She buries her grief in hard work, and soon the deli she runs in Surry Hills has a reputation for the best carrot cake in Sydney.

But then an email from a cafe-owner in Edinburgh leads her to take a trip to Scotland in the depths of winter. There, transported by the twinkling lights and falling snow of a traditional Christmas, Bea is drawn back to a secret past – and a secret love – that she has long ago tried to forget…

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Oh, this wonderfully captures the feel of café life in two of my favourite cities…

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