But I Smile Anyway…

I am thrilled to host my dear friend Jodie Homer as she celebrates publishing another book! the mobile Bakery at the Christmas Parade.

Blurb
Twelve years ago, April left her childhood friend and boyfriend Ben to follow her dreams of being a famous baker, but now she is coming home with her tail between her legs. Ben is still upset about April leaving, so when she comes back he wants nothing to do with her. When April and Ben get thrown into organising the Christmas parade together, can they put their feelings and twelve-year feud aside for the sake of Christmas and give the villagers a parade they will never forget?
Can they work together to make this the best ex-mas parade ever?

Links to buy: From Amazon

My Review

Welcome to Birchlea Heath Village, which is a place about to welcome you into its fold several times over, as Jodie Homer has set a new series there!
In this first book, we meet April, a former resident who feels like she has to crawl back home after her big dreams of baking fame failed to come alive.
She returns to the loving welcome from her family and friends, but not from Ben.
Ben was her boyfriend twelve years before. The boy she left behind as she went to chase her dreams.
And he hasn’t forgotten.
It is a sweet second-chance romance with plenty of hurdles that two people must face to reach the finish line.
There were plenty of mince pies and lots of karaoke sessions throughout the book. Perfect for me, though… should I be thinking of mince pies in September?

Author bio
Jodie lives in a small village in Solihull with her husband and two children. She loves nothing more than dancing around embarrassingly to 90s music and eating mint chocolate. Jodie enjoys reading and writing books full of romance and swoon-worthy fictional men.

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