Christmas at Little beach Street Bakery

Christmas at Little beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan      Audio Book: 7 hours, 48 minutes  Paperback Book: 320 pages             

Jenny Colgan’s writing style reminds me a lot of Sophie Kinsella’s.   Sophie being one of my favorite writers, I had to check to see if this might be one of her pseudonyms, but, no.    Sophie has blogged about Jenny Colgan on her Chick Lit page and she offers high praise to Colgan.   This was a good story complete with fabulous recipes at the end.   How could a book about a bakery not offer recipes, right?    But the recipes are not all about baked dessert items.   They include entrees and veggies, too.    The story is set in England and revolves around Polly and her American Beekeeper boyfriend, Huckle and their friends.   Turns out Polly’s best friend, while they were having a Girl’s Night Out partying, ended up having a night away from her fiancé in which she drank, sang and danced the night away with a bunch of Brazillians, after leaving Polly.    One thing led to another and she turns out to be pregnant.    The good news is it could possibly be her fiancee’s as they got busy when she returned home from her Brazillian night.   They go ahead with wedding plans - her fiance’ pushing to make her his wife.   His folks come over (he and Huckle are best friends and both are from the States).    Mystery is will the baby come out looking like her fiancee’ or will it be of Brazillian descent?     She cries and worries throughout most of the book  crying on Polly’s shoulder, sweating what to do and what to tell her now husband.   Polly goes as long as she can before she tells Huckle.   Now what is a guy to do?    Huckle is in crisis mode having just been told by the most reliable source he knows that his best bud has been cheated on by the love of his life, regardless that she was totally drunk and lost her inhibitions  and it was just a one night thing – no long term full out cheat.   In Huckle’s mind he keeps going over the statistics of men who raise children that aren’t biologically theirs.   Polly begs him not to tell which then throws their relationship on the rocks.    Will Polly and Huckle survive this secret?     And who turns out to be the daddy?    Don’t want to spill the secrets, so, do, read the book.    It is told in such a compelling way that you won’t want to put it down till you find out what happens and seriously who the daddy is and what comes next.   Well written.