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Narrated by:
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Pearl Hewitt
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By:
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Jenny Colgan
About this listen
From the New York Times best-selling author of Little Beach Street Bakery and The Bookshop on the Corner comes a delightful holiday tale full of sweetness, love, heartbreak, and happiness - perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber and Elin Hilderbrand.
Rosie Hopkins, newly engaged, is looking forward to an exciting year in the little English sweetshop she owns. But when fate deals Rosie and her boyfriend Stephen a terrible blow, threatening everything they hold dear, it's going to take all their strength and the support of their families and their friends to hold them together.
After all, don't they say it takes a village to raise a child?
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In her comfy cottage nestled in the Derbyshire hills, Rosie Hopkins has good reason to feel a warm blush in her cheeks. With Christmas weeks away, the holiday is being ushered in with England’s first glorious snowfall of the season. Her boyfriend Stephen is starting his new job as a teacher in the village school. Her quaint Sweetshop and Confectionery has been restored to its former glory, and she has a loveable mop of a new puppy named Mr. Dog. Most joyous of all, Rosie and Stephen’s relatives will finally be gathering together in Lipton for what is sure to be a merry feast.
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Excellent!
- By Kimberly L. on 04-12-21
By: Jenny Colgan
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Once Upon a Christmas Carol
- By: Karen Schaler
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Ryan Paevey, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
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Rachel Rinehart’s Christmas season is on the brink of disaster when her record label suddenly drops her, threatening to end her music career. Then she receives a mysterious Christmas card, and everything starts to change.... Inside the card are lyrics to a classic Christmas carol urging her to return home to Crystal Falls, the snowy mountain town she left behind 15 years ago.
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Total Hallmark movie
- By Rebekah Smith on 12-03-22
By: Karen Schaler
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Sweetshop of Dreams
- By: Jenny Colgan
- Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life, and her boyfriend Gerard, to sort out her elderly Aunt Lilian's sweetshop in a small country village is going to be dull. Boy, is she wrong. Rosie's life is...comfortable. And even though she might like to pursue a more rewarding career, and Gerard doesn't seem to have any plans to propose, Rosie's not complaining. Things could be worse. Right? Lilian Hopkins has spent her life running Lipton's sweetshop, through wartime and family feuds. When her great-niece Rosie arrives to help her with the shop, Lilian struggles with the idea.
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Lovely story weaver
- By april l taylor on 04-13-18
By: Jenny Colgan
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A Very Vintage Christmas
- An Unforgettable Christmas, Book 1
- By: Tilly Tennant
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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With bright red hair and an infectious smile, Dodie is a hopeless romantic and absolutely one of a kind, just like the pieces in her shop. When Dodie finds a love letter in the pocket of an old woollen coat, she makes it her mission to deliver it to its rightful owner. Following the address, she manages to persuade the handsome but reluctant new tenant, Edward, to help her with her search.
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Very cute story
- By Stephanie W. on 03-20-25
By: Tilly Tennant
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The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
- By: Jenny Colgan
- Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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It's true that Anna Trent is a supervisor in a chocolate factory...but that doesn't necessarily mean she knows how to make chocolate. And when a fateful accident gives her the opportunity to work at Paris's elite chocolatier Le Chapeau Chocolat, Anna expects to be outed as a fraud. After all, there is a world of difference between chalky, mass-produced English chocolate and the gourmet confections Anna's new boss creates. But with a bit of luck and a lot of patience, Anna might learn that the sweetest things in life are always worth working for.
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5 STARS - SWEETEST STORY
- By Marie on 02-25-18
By: Jenny Colgan
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The Secret Christmas Library
- A Novel
- By: Jenny Colgan
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Mirren Sutherland stumbled into a career as an antiquarian book hunter after finding a priceless antique book in her great aunt’s attic. Now, as Christmas approaches, she’s been hired by Jamie McPherson, the surprisingly young and handsome laird of a Highland clan whose ancestral holdings include a vast crumbling castle. Family lore suggests that the McPherson family’s collection includes a rare book so valuable that it could save the entire estate—if they only knew where it was. Jamie needs Mirren to help him track down this treasure, which he believes is hidden in his own home.
By: Jenny Colgan
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A Lot Like Christmas
- By: Connie Willis
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss, L. J. Ganser, Lori Gardner, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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No one could ask for a better present than a collection of Connie Willis Christmas tales. These are amazing stories, representing all the best of the Connie Willis experience: true Christmas gifts to her many fans. They are full of humor, absurdity, human foibles, tragedy, joy, and hope. They both send up and embrace many of the best Christmas traditions, such as the Christmas newsletter, Secret Santas, office parties, holiday pageants, and Christmas dinners (both elaborate and spare).
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Very, Very Long Stories
- By Dave on 01-18-20
By: Connie Willis
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The Upside Down Christmas
- An Audible Original Novella
- By: Kate Forster
- Narrated by: Rachael Tidd
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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When Marlo is unceremoniously ghosted by her part-time lover, she decides she’ll need to avoid the whole Christmas season. That is actually pretty easy in this country, because it’s so hot and so far away from anything that means Christmas to her. But Marlo’s flatmate Alex is determined to lift her out of her grinch slump and convince her that Christmas Down Under may be unfamiliar, but exactly what she needs to start her life on a new course.
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Sweet Christmas novella
- By susie on 12-11-22
By: Kate Forster
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The Cafe by the Sea
- A Novel
- By: Jenny Colgan
- Narrated by: Sarah Barron
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Years ago, Flora fled the quiet Scottish island where she grew up - and she hasn't looked back. What would have done on Mure? It's a place where everyone has known her all her life, where no one will let her forget the past. In bright, bustling London, she can be anonymous, ambitious...and hopelessly in love with her boss. But when fate brings Flora back to the island, she's suddenly swept once more into life with her brothers - all strapping, loud, and seemingly incapable of basic housework - and her father.
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Amazing accents and narration
- By Joanne on 10-18-17
By: Jenny Colgan
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The Best Worst Christmas
- An Audible Original Novella
- By: Kate Forster
- Narrated by: Rachael Tidd
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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Lily is back from Australia for the first time in seven years to spend Christmas at her mum’s house in a small, gossipy English village. To her surprise, she returns to find that her mother is dating the man next door, who also happens to be the father of her ex-boyfriend Tom. Tom, who broke Lily’s heart all those years ago. Tom, the real reason Lily fled to the other side of the world and stayed there. Tom, who is also home for Christmas and right there, next door.
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Grouchy
- By Cheryl on 12-12-21
By: Kate Forster
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The Christmas Bookshop
- A Novel
- By: Jenny Colgan
- Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. The prospect of spending Christmas with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia’s perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered yuppie life, does not appeal. Frankly, Sofia doesn’t exactly want her prickly sister Carmen there, either. But Sofia has yet another baby on the way, a mother desperate to see her daughters get along, and a client who needs help revitalizing his shabby old bookshop. So Carmen moves in and takes the job.
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Irritating and filthy language
- By AmazonPrimeCustomer2023 on 12-28-21
By: Jenny Colgan
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The Little Village Bakery
- Honeybourne, Book 1
- By: Tilly Tennant
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Heartbreak has forced Millie to make a new start, and when she arrives at the old bakery in the village of Honeybourne, her imagination has been captured by the tumbledown bakery. But with no running water and dust everywhere, her cosy dream quickly crumbles. Luckily the locals are a friendly bunch and step in to help. One in particular, Dylan, a laid-back lothario, soon captures her attention. But just as Millie is beginning to settle in, an unexpected visitor from her past suddenly turns up determined to ruin everything for her.
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DNF - Just can't
- By Angela Briggs on 04-11-25
By: Tilly Tennant
Not Perfect but I Loved It
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Feel good, funny, well written series
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Adorable story!
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Not for me.
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Always a delight!
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Cute
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Peace on earth 🎄
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This is a fabulous book to listen to around the holidays! Definitely recommend
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Beautiful Christmas Story!
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Wanted a Plus item to learn about the author
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