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GIVEAWAY: 3 copies of The Toffee Factory Girls – CHESTER-LE-STREET
5th May 2024
We are delighted to be able to offer 3 copies of The Toffee Factory Girls by Glenda Young, set in Chester-le-Street, County Durham
Open UK ONLY
In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street, Durham.
Anne works for the enigmatic owner Mr Jack. She is highly efficient and whips Mr Jack’s disorganised office – and Mr Jack himself – into shape. However, behind her business-like façade, Anne hides a heart-breaking secret.
Elsie is feisty, fun and enjoys a good time. However, her gadabout ways get her into trouble when she falls for the wrong man in the sugar-boiling room.
And there’s dependable Hetty, who’s set to marry her boyfriend when he returns from the war. But when Hetty is sent on an errand by the toffee factory boss, her life changes in ways she could never imagine and a whole new world opens up.
The toffee factory girls begin as strangers before forging a close bond of friendship and trust. And, as the war rages on, they help each other cope through the difficult times ahead.
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I do like toffee but love chocolate heroes
WINNERS:
Charlotte Wilde
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Laura Pritchard
Midget gems. Nostalgic childhood memories.
I like Maoam Stripes and Joystixx
I like toffee sweets.
I like hard fruit sweets like Fruit Gums.
My favourite sweets are Haribo sours.
I love a classic bon bon sweet – strawberry, cherry, lemon, you name it!
Chocolate truffles are my favourite – a real treat!
Liquorice
I love mint sweets, refreshing and tasty
Coconut Mushrooms! Coco crazy.
I used to love chocolate coated toffees, but after a few dental accidents I have had to give them up, so now liquorice allsorts are my favourites
Butter Mintoes are my favourite
I love caramel and creamy toffee and also creamy, milky chocolate.
Minstrels are my favourites. With the cost of fillings these days, I’m afraid to touch toffees or chewy sweets!
I love wine gums! my daughter is revising at the moment and she keeps buying them as a treat for herself and when i take her a cup of tea i steal one!!
Lemon Bon Bons … they always take me back to my childhood. I love the fact that when you first pop them in your mouth they are very tangy then they turn sweet.
I love wine gums!
I love starburst although I would usually pick chocolate rather than sweets.
When sweet rationing ended 70 years ago I became a sherbaholic. Every penny of my pocket money (6d a week) went on sherbet dabs, sherbet fountains, flying saucers, sherbet lemons or anything that contained it. Hubby, my children and now grandchildren know better than to buy me chocolates. They are well trained in feeding my addiction!
I love fudge or chocolate covered cinder toffee
I love Jelly Babies, they remind me of my childhood
I love nougat though some brands are a bit hard on my teeth!!
i adore parma violets
I used to love fruit salad sweets
Mint humbugs
Lovehearts
Favourite sweets are definitely parma violets
Lemon drops every time
My favourite sweets are coffee flavoured ones and Liquirs, I also love liquirs
I live strawberry Bon Bons
I have just got back from holiday and they were giving away cola bottles. I liked them!
My favourite are cola cubes
I love fruit pastilles!
fizzy dummies
Oh I love a traditional Mint Humbug mmm mmm
Sherbet lemons are my favourite
My favourite sweets are Drumstick squashies. I used to love the lollies when I ws a child but I don’t think my teeth would handle them now so these are a good alternative
i love parma violets!
sherbet lemons 🙂
Like chocolate Ă©clairs
My favourites are Maltesers, just yummy
I love fudge! It’s the one thing I cannot say no to.
Lemon bon bons – absolutely delicious!
Chocolate limes . They are like two sweets in one . To begin with ,you have the yummy hard lime exterior , which if you suck , lasts forever . And then , the delightful chocolate centre . . .I am salivating , as I write this .
PS : an added bonus is that if I’m on a long car journey , they help alleviate nausea .
Chocolate limes
liqurice allsorts
Jelly beans 🙂
Chocolate! My weakness is chocolate – I especially love bars of fruit and nut, twixes; maltesers and tubs of celebrations.
Anything liquorice – liquorice allsorts, comfits and torpedoes, pontefract cakes – plus I do have a liking for pear drops.
mine are . . . liqueur chocolates, if this counts
Liquorice, but extra salty.
Toffee Eclairs every time!
I love chocolate, especially Montezuma’s Nutter Butter. So peanutty.
I used to love the creamy Highland toffee bars and slabs of Bluebird toffee
Love Liquorice toffees x
My favourite are midget gems or ruffles. Oh and bounty when I’m feeling flush
I have to confess to being a chocaholic. I love all chocolate but if I had to pick a favourite I would say coffee creams.
Ooh, Sherbet lemons were always my favourite – so sour they made your mouth pucker and so sharp they also ripped it to shreds – goodness know why I loved them so much! I don’t eat them now ( if they are still around) but have fond memories!
My favourite are coconut mushrooms, they take me back to my childhood
My favourite are Cadbury toffee eclairs!
Oh I love an old fashioned Humbug, brings back so many memories !
Where’s the toffee hammer
Where’s the toffee hammer
I really like anything that has cherries in.
maltesers or fudge it’s hard to choose
My favourite is liquorice toffee, followed by mint toffee.
I love a nice piece of chewy toffee
I have quite a few favourite sweets, but one of my most favourites are Jazzies, which are milk chocolate buttons with hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top.
Fruit Pastilles – they’re fruit, so they’re healthy – right…!?
Mint imperials are the only sweets I have eaten since I’ve grown up.
I love a Wine Gum. I used to think these actually contained wine when I was young hee hee.
Mint imperials – remind me of Grandma, she always had some in her handbag
I love rhubarb and custards. They remind me of my late grandma. She used to buy them in a tin.
I love those hearts that you get in the Haribo star mix! So moreish
Love a nice chewy toffee or some fudge
I do love a pineapple chunk!
My favourite sweets are toffee ones but I tend to suck them as I want to keep the fillings in my teeth.
Cola cubes.
I love strawberry pencils. So good!
Anything chewy for me – eclairs, nougat, toffees are all good!
Liquorice, it doesn’t affect my blood sugar too badly and helps when I want to cut my calories by giving me something long lasting to eat.
I like butter candies
Foam Bananas and Foam Shrimps. So sweet and delicious
As a child I choked on a brandy ball and it was only my mother’s quick action which saved me so I was never a much of a fan of sweets after that and really preferred chocolate. I did occasionally eat Fruit Pastilles which were very tasty though.
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Oh no, what a shocking thing to happen!!
I love Maltesers – easy on the teeth. Enjoy them with a cup of drinking chocolate whilst enjoying reading a super book.
My favourite sweets are Black Jacks
Sherbet Limes
Love toffee covered in chocolate – or strawberry bon bons
coconut mushrooms … mmm!
I don’t really eat sweets and never did!
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That is SO healthy!
Jelly babies
I have a very sweet tooth, so the sky is virtually the limit with regards to my ‘favourites’.
I love toffees, however, now being of a certain age, the teeth are not to be relied on quite so much and dental work is a very expensive result for a few moments of enjoyment! 🙂
If I could only have one choice, I guess it would be a creamy, vanilla fudge, as it lasts a good long time if you suck it slowly 🙂
Adding this book to my wish list too!
My favourite sweets are chocolate truffles. You get chocolate, toffee-like fudge. So you get something of everything!
My favourite used to be Fruit Gums, but they don’t seem to make them any more. The gummies you can get now are too chewy
I love any sweeties with liquorice involved best of all, so liquorice allsorts, liquorice toffees, soft sticks of liquorice, pomfret cakes plus any others, I class all as my favourites.
Toffees are a no as dental treatment is rather expensive, although I quite like those chocolate jazzies (also called jazzles), which are a bit kinder on the teeth.
I used to love coconut ice – haven’t seen or thought about it for years – wonder if it is still made?
Jelly Tots … They are so tiny that I don’t feel so guilty!
I love liquorice. I used to eat toffees now I worry about my fillings!