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The Lemon Tree Café

The Heart-warming Sunday Times Bestseller

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The Lemon Tree Café

By: Cathy Bramley
Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
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Summary

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Lemon Tree Café by Cathy Bramley, read by Colleen Prendergast.

The Lemon Tree Cafe was originally published as a four-part serial. This is the complete story in one package.

When Rosie Featherstone finds herself unexpectedly jobless, the offer to help her beloved Italian grandmother out at the Lemon Tree Cafe – a little slice of Italy nestled in the rolling hills of Derbyshire – feels like the perfect way to keep busy.

Surrounded by the rich scent of espresso, delicious biscotti and juicy village gossip, Rosie soon finds herself falling for her new way of life. But she is haunted by a terrible secret, one that even the appearance of a handsome new face can't quite help her move on from.

Then disaster looms and the cafe’s fortunes are threatened . . . and Rosie discovers that her nonna has been hiding a dark past of her own. With surprises, betrayal and more than one secret brewing, can she find a way to save the Lemon Tree Cafe and help both herself and Nonna achieve the happy endings they deserve?

Your favourite authors have loved reading bestseller Cathy Bramley:

'Delightful!' Katie Fforde
'Full of joy and fun' Milly Johnson
'Delightfully warm with plenty of twists and turns' Trisha Ashley

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Critic reviews

Full of joy and fun
Delightful!
Brilliantly life-affirming
Its gentle good humour and optimism will warm the stoniest of hearts
A lovely, warm, page-turner of a story filled with all the perfect ingredients - thought-provoking and emotional too, and with characters that feel like my kind of friends. Cathy’s best book to date!
‘The Lemon Tree Café serves up double helpings of happiness, lashings of love, and leaves you feeling full, warm and hopeful.’
a lively confection of the best kind…sweet as a piece of lemon shortbread
Uplifting, love-filled slice of brilliance *****
Uplifting . . . Books by Cathy Bramley are brilliantly life affirming
All stars
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Yet another gorgeous book by Cathy Bramley.
Strong characters, twists and turns that you weren't expecting full of humour and tears a delightful read.
Another one I had a job to put down.
Coleen Prendagast 's narrating adds to the warmth of the book , her clever use of voices gives each character their individuality.
looking forward to my next read Wickham hall.

Brilliant

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I really like Colleen Prendergast as a narrator. She has a quality that makes me listen more intently to the story than other narrators seem to have, in my opinion.
This story was great. I realised part-way through that another story must have come before this but it didn't take away any enjoyment for me - it's just made me curious to find the prequel!
I liked all the characters and, due mainly to Cathy Bramley's superb writing skills but also to the narrator's charisma, I found myself predicting what the characters might do and how they might react to particular situations.
A thoroughly enjoyable listen and highly recommended for some away-time for the brain.

A 4-part beauty!

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This is the first book I have listed to by Cathy Bramley but will be back for more. A lovely easy listen. don't have to concentrate too much just relax.
Love Colleen Prendergast could listen to her reading a shopping list

Brilliant

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listening to this bird and really enjoyed the story as a basically it tells you to never take things for granted and always appreciate the small things in life as a family and a few good friends is all you ever need and I found this book really enjoyable and would definitely recommend it

very easy to listen to and I found it very enjoyab

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Listen to the Plumberry School of Comfort Food first.

This is my fourth Cathy listen, and the best one so far! The other ones have been a bit dragged out, but still good. I really rooted for Rosie in this one, and the cafe itself! Quite a lot happened, which kept me interested.

Was slightly enraged about Callum featuring in the epilogue. That is no good reason to behave as he did, it is portrayed almost as an excuse, which it isn’t…

My best Cathy listen so far!

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