Thank you Netgalley and Random House UK, Transworld. Trisha Ashley never ever disappoints I absolutely loved this book and there are now words but WOW

Another total delight from one of my favourite authors! I had already pre-ordered this one months ago but when I had a chance to get the ARC from NetGalley, I hit the request button at lightening speed.

Alice was abandoned as a baby on the Moors about Haworth. After a few traumatic life events including the loss of her fiancé, she decides to return to the scene and buys a cafe without seeing it. Of course it is a dump and of course the shop opposite is run by a handsome but aloof antiques expert. Alice is also an author and in between cafe renovations, becoming friends with the handsome man, meeting his family and trying to find more about her birth, we get snippets from her witty and edgy fantasy fairy tales. This all builds up to the opening of the cafe and whether she will solve the mystery of her birth.

A lovely heroine in Alice, a wonderful hero in Nile and a fabulous cast of supporting characters, set against the backdrop of Haworth, Brontes and the Yorkshire Moors, the usual perfect Trisha recipe ! Mixed in too are a great story, misunderstandings, romance, wit, plenty of cake (who can resist a fat rascal - I know Bettys well ) and the rudest waitresses in Yorkshire! I felt I was leaving friends behind once I had finished the book so I hope (hint) there will be a sequel

The pre-order will be going straight to my Mum who is also a huge Trisha fan and then I may well re-read it! I also urgently need to re visit Haworth where when I was younger I spent many hours wanting to be a Bronte sister.



Another total delight from one of my favourite authors! I had already pre-ordered this one months ago but when I had a chance to get the ARC from NetGalley, I hit the request button at lightening speed.

Alice was abandoned as a baby on the Moors about Haworth. After a few traumatic life events including the loss of her fiancé, she decides to return to the scene and buys a cafe without seeing it. Of course it is a dump and of course the shop opposite is run by a handsome but aloof antiques expert. Alice is also an author and in between cafe renovations, becoming friends with the handsome man, meeting his family and trying to find more about her birth, we get snippets from her witty and edgy fantasy fairy tales. This all builds up to the opening of the cafe and whether she will solve the mystery of her birth.

A lovely heroine in Alice, a wonderful hero in Nile and a fabulous cast of supporting characters, set against the backdrop of Haworth, Brontes and the Yorkshire Moors, the usual perfect Trisha recipe ! Mixed in too are a great story, misunderstandings, romance, wit, plenty of cake (who can resist a fat rascal - I know Bettys well ) and the rudest waitresses in Yorkshire! I felt I was leaving friends behind once I had finished the book so I hope (hint) there will be a sequel

The pre-order will be going straight to my Mum who is also a huge Trisha fan and then I may well re-read it! I also urgently need to re visit Haworth where when I was younger I spent many hours wanting to be a Bronte sister.

With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the review copy

Loved, loved, loved this book. A great feel good story with interesting characters and an unexpected story line.

Lovely! Warm and life affirming this made my day so much brighter :)
Can't wait to read more Trisha Ashley.

Alice always knew that her parents were not her real parents, her step father said she was discovered in Haworth outside the Bronte Parsonage. The story of her discovering was added to over the years until one day her stepfather dies.

It is only then that Alice discovers that her stepmother has always loathed her and never even wanted her. Suddenly adrift and alone again Alice tries to find a place to settle and maker her home and find some identity within her self.

In Cornwall she finds friendship with Edie who takes her under a wing and provides perhaps the motherly figure she has always been missing in her life. When Edie moves to Scotland, it isn't long before Alice thinks that she will follow, her life in Cornwall not turning out to be very much.

In Scotland she starts to settle, meets Dan and helps in a local cafe where she can perfect her baking. But then tragedy strikes and Alice is adrift yet again. Now is the time to find out where she really belongs and so she heads to Haworth.

Making an impetuous purchase on an unseen cafe in Haworth Alice takes the bit between her teeth and decides to open a teashop with the rudest waitresses in Yorkshire. She does of course have many hurdles to overcome and has many doubters along the way but Alice's determination to do something and make a mark is strong.

Hoping that she may well also discover the truth about her birth, as well as pursue a part-time career in writing fairy stories with a twist, Alice discovers that not all fairy tales are straightforward and they don not all have a happy ending.

As with any Trisha Ashley novel, this is well written, the characters fully formed and developed and there is always more than one plot line weaving its way through the book. In fact with this book you could almost say you were getting three stories for the price of one! I loved so much about this book because I cared so much for the main protagonists, I want to eat in the teashop and stay at the lovely Bed and Breakfast where Alice is made to feel at home. The short vignettes of one of the stories are no more than a paragraph and in that short space of time, I took a complete dislike to a character - that is the charm of Trisha Ashley's novels and especially this one. There is so much packed into the pages.

One of my favourite reads of 2017 and of Trisha Ashley novels. Go buy and read it, you will not be disappointed and like me you will not want it to end.

I really enjoyed The Little Teashop of Lost and Found.

The main character that is Alice, shes had a very unsettled life as she was found in the moors abandoned by her birth mother, then her adoptive father passes away and after travelling many places she just doesnt seem to feel like she belongs anywhere.

After her Fiance sadly dies in an accident she buys a cafe in her birth town Haworth. She arrives to find that the cafe she had bought wasnt as described and takes a lot of work to refurbish it.

Alice also embarks on a journey in Haworth to try and find answers and return to the very spot she was abandoned as a baby.

There are lots of unexpected twists and turns throughout the book that really leave you on the edge of your seat not knowing whats going to happen next.

Overall it is truely beautiful and heart warming. Lots of tears will be shed throughout the book!

This was my first book by Trisha and I now can't wait to explore her others. This book was beautiful i was so totally hooked and swept up by all the emotions

This was a fabulous book, I absolutely loved it - the main character, Alice, was so inspiring. She had quite a hard life (abandoned as a baby on the moors/evil step-mother/fiancee dying) but each time something went wrong she turned herself around and just got on with things again. I love Trisha Ashley's style of writing and she didn't disappoint.

The story is about Alice who has had a hard life. She was dumped as a newborn baby on the Yorkshire moors, luckily found, adopted by a couple (her Father loved her, her 'Mother' didn't and hadn't wanted a baby), then her Father died later in life and her 'Mother' stopped pretending and just deserted her. So Alice left and went off to live her own life, starting off in Cornwall where she med Edie, the owner of a small hotel, who took her in. A few years later she met Dan, a climber, they got engaged, moved to Scotland and ran 'Climbers Cafe'. Then Dan died in a climbing accident and as they weren't married the ex-wife, who he hadn't actually got around to divorcing, came back and claimed the cafe and flat that they had worked/lived in.

So Alice ended up back with Edie, who she had stayed good friends with, who now ran a guesthouse in her native Scotland, to figure out what to do next and whilst there had a bit of breakdown as recent events just caught up with her. Luckily enough Dan had two insurance policies with just Alice as the named beneficiary, so with this money she decided to go back to Haworth, where she was born and buy a tea-shop, sight unseen. Of course this turned out to be nothing as expected and was a complete dump.

Now this probably sounds like a really depressing story, but it's really not as Alice just gets on with things, probably because she's used to just forging ahead with her life, and from this point on things start improving - at last! She meets Nile, her neighbour in the antique shop opposite the cafe, and whilst waiting to move into the flat above the cafe stays with his Mum, who does B&B at their family home, and meets his family who she feels really comfortable with and immediately loves. Their house sounds wonderful, a big old rambling place with lots of rooms and nooks and crannys that they're slowly redecorating and bringing back to life.

Alice also writes dark adult fairy tales, which she slots in among sorting out the cafe. She's actually becoming more popular too as she published her own books initially but now has an agent dealing with her next book. So there are snippets of the book she's writing written into the story (very odd story, not really my thing and I found myself skipping these bits), along with snippets of someone else's words and how Alice was born and abandoned, so a little mystery running through the story trying to figure out who she is, which was really intriguing.

The tea shop finally ends up opening, and the high-end afternoon teas are really popular, including Tilda and Nell, the rudest waitresses in Yorkshire! All the talk about tasty cakes made me really hungry, they sounded delicious. The mystery of Alice's birth is finally revealed, and there's a twist I didn't expect too, but I won't spoil that.

This was such an enjoyable book, with a lovely feeling throughout it. I was sad to see it finish. Trisha Ashley at her very best. It's gone straight onto my favourite books list.

This book is another delight from Trisha Ashley! I'm always drawn to books that feature teashops and add fairytales into the mix and I'm a happy reader!!

We follow the story of Alice in this book and it isn't all plain sailing and light and fluffy for her, which just makes you warm to the character quicker. Her life started when she was found on the Yorkshire moors abandoned as a tiny baby, and despite the overwhelming love of her adoptive father, when he passes on she is rejected once more this time by her rather nasty step-mother. Once again she has to pick herself up and start over again and try and follow her dreams - whatever they may be!

She first moves to Cornwall where she finds her feet and is 'found' again by Edie who is a local hotel owner and soon takes her under her wing and soon finds her niche in baking. She soon finds love and life seems safe again - unfortunately sadness and tragedy seems to follow Alice around and she soon has to pick up and start all over again.

When she is facing tragedy again you just wonder how much more she can take, but she has a wonderful spirit about her as a character that makes her dust herself off and move on once more and ends up back in the Yorkshire moors after buying a rundown cafe, which she plans to turn into an upmarket Afternoon Tea establishment.

Here she feels at home and her past soon starts to catch up with her as she tries to discover more of where she came from, alongside the pitfalls of starting a new business and the introduction of a rather gorgeous neighbour with whom she seems to click immediately!

Alice is one of lifes' good people - why is it that bad things always happen to good people?! But despite that she keeps finding the strength within to push on and achieve her dreams and I found myself cheering her on constantly and wishing her the fairytale happy ending that the fairytales she writes don't seem to have!

Really loved the flow of this story and the enduring image of how people find strength within at the toughest times and how the support of those around them can help push them on to achieve great things.

This book also had the bonus of a character who appears for the smallest amount of time called Mace North! I always love to see a character with a link to my name!

This book has reaffirmed my love of Trisha Ashley's novels. The book was very hard to put down once started, with several threads developing as the story progressed: the temptation to read another, then another chapter was great. The plot was well mapped out with just the correct amount of information being disclosed at any time. The book ended with a totally unexpected twist. Another Trisha Ashley book earmarked for rereading in the future. Can't wait for the next one!