When Rosie Hopkins moves to Lipton to take care of her great aunt, she expects to make a speedy return to London, her boyfriend Gerard and her job as an auxiliary nurse. She thinks what needs to happen is that she sells the sweetshop and finds a suitable care home for her great aunt. That is not exactly what happens.
I love the way Jenny Colgan writes about this tight knit community in Darbyshire and the characters who live there. It feels like I’m part of little Lipton myself, where everybody knows everybody else and where there doesn’t seem to be much going on unless you look really closely.
Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop of Dreams is highly recommended for fans of Jenny Colgan’s other work as well as readers of the chick-lit genre.
(All opinions in this review are my own)