The Little Christmas Kitchen: A wonderfully festive, feel-good read

The Little Christmas Kitchen: A wonderfully festive, feel-good read
Jenny Oliver

'You know you're in for a treat when you open a Jenny Oliver book' Debbie JohnsonFrom the top 10 best-selling author of The Summerhouse by the Sea‘A perfect holiday read.’ – The Sun‘Leaves you with a warm, fuzzy feeling inside.’ – Books with Bunny‘Intelligent, delightful and charming! The writing is exquisite.’ – What’s Better Than BooksElla Davenport is turning her world upside down. She’s ditching her cheating ex, swapping Carnaby Street for Corfu and heading back to the bustling family restaurant of her childhood. but returning home won’t be as easy as she thought…Meanwhile, her sister Maddy has always loved the quiet pace of island life but now she’s longing to escape. So when Ella arrives in Corfu, she jumps at the chance to trade places and soon she’s exploring the snowy streets of London in search of her own adventure.But thousands of miles apart and struggling to adjust to their new lives, Ella and Maddy are about to find out that all they want for Christmas is each other…Combining Jenny Oliver’s trademark warmth and mouth-watering bakes, you’ll devour this is one sitting.

Christmas at the Davenports’ house was always about one thing: food

But when sisters Ella and Maddy were split up, Ella to live in London with their Dad, and Maddy staying in Greece with their Mum, mince pies lost their magic.

Now, a cheating husband has thrown Ella a curved snowball…and for the first time in years, all she wants is her mum. So she heads back to Greece, where her family’s taverna holds all the promise of home. Meanwhile, waitress Maddy’s dreams of a white Christmas lead her back to London…and her Dad.

But a big fat festive life-swap isn’t as easy as it sounds! And as the sisters trade one kitchen for another, it suddenly seems that among the cinnamon, cranberries and icing sugar, their recipes for a perfect Christmas might be missing a crucial ingredient: each other.

Also by Jenny Oliver (#uf7fb221c-a86c-573f-af6c-b81296a8345f):

The Vintage Summer Wedding

The Parisian Christmas Bake Off

The Little Christmas Kitchen

Jenny Oliver

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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2014

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E-book Edition © June 2014 ISBN: 9781474007795

Version date: 2018-07-23

Jenny Oliver

wrote her first book on holiday when she was ten years old. Illustrated with cut-out supermodels from her sister’s Vogue, it was an epic, sweeping love story not so loosely based on Dynasty.

Since then Jenny has gone on to get an English degree, a Masters, and a job in publishing that’s taught her what it takes to write a novel (without the help of the supermodels). She wrote The Parisian Christmas Bake Off on the beach in a sea-soaked, sand-covered notebook. This time the inspiration was her addiction to macaroons, the belief she can cook them and an all-consuming love of Christmas. When the decorations go up in October, that’s fine with her! Follow her on Twitter @JenOliverBooks (http://twitter.com/JenOliverBooks)

Contents

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Title Page (#u228adeb4-fa49-5ed0-b84a-deca503cb019)

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Author Bio (#uf7ad88a4-79c2-5582-98c9-aed842588e07)

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16