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Cindy R

Yummy love story
Whisk together some sugar, a touch of salt, vanilla beans, flour, and several other ingredients, plus some French joie de vivre and a bit of mysterious magic, and you have the    The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris (OneMoreChapter). A delightful story that will warm up anyone's heart and put a smile on their face.

Edie Lane is ready for a change; she needs one badly. She leaves her small Irish town for what she thinks is a bakery job in Paris, but it turns out to be the small town of Compiegne, miles outside Paris, where rumors are the pastries offer a taste of magic. She decides to stay and ends up glad she did.

The whimsical novel, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris, is full of love, and readers will fall in love with the engaging characters. It's the first novel I've read by Evie Woods, and I look forward to experiencing more magical realism in her previous books.

Emily_Bahhar

Another great Evie Woods read!
Another win from Evie Woods! I enjoyed this story and absolutely adored all the characters.

This book has a much different vibe from The Story Collector or The Lost Bookshop, and it was nice to get a different side of the author.

More than your typical “women’s” fiction, this had developed characters, little-known but important history, and wonderful imagery. Evie Woods’ writing, for me, is easily understandable and provides relatable emotions, even while situations may not be anything I’ve encountered.

The author is one of my instant-buys, and I can’t wait for her next one.

Cloggie Downunder

sweet romance
The Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris is the first novel by Irish author, Evie Woods/Gaughan. After eighteen months of painful memories and heartache at the loss of her mother, twenty-seven-year-old Irish waitress, Edith Lane decides the job as a bakery assistant manager, advertised online, will lift her from her slump. It comes with accommodation, perfect.

Except, in Paris, she discovers she didn’t read the ad properly: the bakery is on the Rue de Paris in Compiegne, not in Paris proper. And Madame Moreau isn’t exactly welcoming. And she’s forbidden from entering the kitchen. And the attic bedroom is cold and bare. What has she done?

And yet, Compiegne is home to quite a few ex-pats who are friendly, and on her day off, she takes up the invitation to hear Nicole’s husband play in a gypsy jazz band at Club Nostalgie. It’s there she meets Hugo Chadwick, and they are instantly mutually attracted: they really connect. Hugo loves to photograph old buildings, but works in the family business in Paris.

In her attic room, Edie discovers a hidden notebook: a diary and recipes written by a P. Moreau, written over a century earlier, things she tries out when the bakery is closed. And on a sleepless night, she hears activity in the basement kitchen, something very puzzling and mysterious going on.

This is a heart-warming tale of romance and betrayal, of a failing business that mobilizes the townspeople to act, of love and loyalty and redemption.
This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by NetGalley and Harper Collins UK/One More Chapter.