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Hot Pies on the Tramcar
- Narrated by: Mary Woodvine
- Length: 8 hrs
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Summary
A heartwarming novel from the queen of family saga, Sheila Newberry.
London, 1925.
On Paradise Corner, just past the tram stop, Florence runs a pie shop, famous for miles around. Warm and comforting, just like her pies, Florence is always there as a helping hand or a shoulder to cry on, especially to her full house of family and friends. There's six-year-old niece Josefina, left with Florence by her wayward sister, Stella. Rose Marie, Florence's younger sister, in search of adventures of her own. And Manny, invalided out of the First World War and in need of a job and a place to rest his head.
Balancing her friends and her pies leaves Florence little time to look after herself. But times could be changing. And happiness may be just around the corner.
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- Debbie
- 08-07-23
Good Book
I love this story I can’t understand why someone has given such a bad review I bored reading her review
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- James Ian Gulliver
- 12-10-23
Enjoyable original story
I have listened to this story several times and really enjoyed it. It is a very powerful and interesting tale. I look forward to listening to more stories from this superb writer.
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- Kimberley Jarman
- 05-05-21
About Pies it ain't.
If you expected gorgeous literature about pies and pie making I'm sorry, you ain't going to find it here. Likewise if you expected cozy commutes on the Tramcar... Not here either.
So I picked this book up because the simple, catchy title sounded divine. But the story is actually about Florence and her two sister and the lodger Lilly upstairs.
Florence is housing her sister Rose Marie and her niece whilst her sister Stella travels around with her husband. Florence owns the pie shop while both Lilly and Rose Marie work elsewhere. Soon all of this responsibility and work grows to much for Florence and it is Manny, the shop assistant invalided out of the First World War, that steps into the breach.
I don't know how to talk to you about this book so *spoilers*.
Florence becomes ill with a condition that she has been ignoring for awhile and has to have an operation. Manny sends her flowers in hospital so she comes out and proposes to him.
Meanwhile Lilly, who has been estranged from her husband has her child stolen by said husband, is then kidnapped. Rose Marie falls in love with a suitable young man and then breaks off her engagement and runs away when she realizes Florence is her Mother, not her sister.
This sounds fairly exciting but the execution is beyond slap dash. For a start we never find out who employs the gentleman who kidnaps Lilly. He keeps her drugged and afraid for weeks on end and then discovering she has no idea what he wants just leaves her in a flat and runs off.
When Rose Marie's fiance eventually tracks her down to find out why she ran away she asks him what took him so long and then he forgives her!
Everyone who is estranged from their husband's (often for good reasons) fall at their feet and reunite with them once they step back into their lives.
I guess what I'm trying to say is this story drops us into several people's lives and we just watch as a series of unconnected events happen. We also watch unbelievable romantic scenarios and are given lots of back story to things that don't reach fruition.
It's a shame because the author writes a long explanation as to her roots and why she always wanted to write a story about a pie shop and even gives us a pie recipe. But the story has cock all to do with the pies!
So because of that and the very hotch potch and confusing storyline I have no choice but to say this story was a disappointment.
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