Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

Jenny Colgan has become something of a treasure amongst those seeking a good chick lit read with heart. The popularity if her books having skyrocketed in recent years.

Meet Me At The Cupcake Cafe is some years old now but I hadn't found time to enjoy it and now I wonder what took me so long. The story of Issy, a thirty something singleton who finds herself out of work and with a passion for baking who decides to open her own cafe.

Colgan is somewhat of a master at writing novels which don't just have a small cast of interesting characters but whole communities of them and in the Cupcake Cafe we have such a colourful array of people we are introduced to and become emotionally invested in that it makes it a lovely read. They all weave in and out of the story so intricately.

Whilst romance forms part of the story it's not it's only focus which sometimes can be detrimental to novels of this genre. Instead it is a story of perseverance and friendships and community. A lovely read which was so well received Colgan wrote a follow up story entitled Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe which is lovely as Issy and her community of friends clearly have lots more stories to share.