The Second Chance Tea Shop is about Anna, who is a widow and Mum to 3 year old Ellie. She decides to start afresh and move back to the village where she grew up, Little Somersby in Somerset. Anna buys a lovely old cottage called Pippin Cottage - this book is jam packed with gorgeous sounding places and things - and has a new job as manager of The Little Orchard Tea Shop. Her best friend from school lives two cottages away, and Anna is looking forward to a new chapter in her life.

Initially she feels like an outsider, the undertones and subtleties of the villages relationships beyond her knowledge, but she soon gets into the way of life in the village of Little Somersby. The last things she expects is to meet a man she knew briefly over 16 years ago, Matthew Carter; a cider farm owner and father to Meredith. As well as being the Managing Director of Carter's Ciders - a successful cider farm and maker, he's also tall and good looking. But with the emergence of two people from Matthew's past, will him and Anna stand a chance at happiness...

The book is written in the order of the seasons, so you get to experience the changing of the scenery and passing of the year, the weather and the different locals festivities and customs. This really makes you feel like part of the village and community. I loved reading about the centuries old Wassailing celebration; filled with Hog roast, morris dancers, the green man and wassail queen, mulled cider, the Spring May Fair and the fudge cake and fiction book club, Anna sets up at the cafe.

The Second Chance Tea Shop is such a charming and delightful easy read. It's full of wonderful and vivid descriptions of the village and Anna's cottage; you can picture the Main Street with its butcher, takeaway, bakers, pub, wine shop, and other little local shops so clearly while reading. The village and residents end up feeling like a place you've visited before.

With the mouth watering descriptions of all types of food - cupcakes, treacle tarts, fruited tea loaf, cream teas and scones, muffins, cakes, Somerset cider prosciutto and pickle sandwiches, Wookey hole cheddar and spring onion toasties, and drinks to wash all the food down - pots of earl grey, lattes and espressos, copious varieties of cider and wine - it really is a feel good book that makes you feel more light hearted and can perk you up again.

Sure it may have a rather similar plot to other books of the same genre, but it's so well written and utterly captivating that it manages to feel fresh. It does contain some sex scenes, which don't worry me, although I'm aware they're not everyone's cup of tea.

Anybody who loves chick lit, romance, and books filled with descriptions of yummy food in a picture perfect sounding village, would adore this book. Just make sure you have an endless supply of freshly baked cakes to eat before you start reading, or you'll be running out to the shops to buy some.

Thanks to NetGalley and Aria for the ARC, in exchange for an honest review.

The Second Chance Tea Shop by Fay Keenan is a sweet romance story set in cozy little villages, an easy read with a satisfying ending. The characters are real and believable. Overall the story was entertaining enough, but the story is too predictable and a bit too much sex for my taste. I basically had to skip those scenes.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoyed The Second Chance Tea Shop. It is beautifully written and so easy to read. With characters you fall in love with straight away.

The main character Anna has been through so much and you just feel for her and wish her every happiness. Throughout the book my heart broke for her, I felt every emotion for her in the book, from anger, sadness and happiness.

The cafe, cottage and whole village that is used in the book just sounds absolutely perfect and so peaceful it would be anyones dream place to live in.

A fabulous 5* read!

Charming book of love, family and friendship looking forward to more of this series

An excellent book with very believable characters and storyline. The story of the main characters and their families was very entertaining, despite that I really wanted to get into the pages and give the 'hero' a real talking to at times. I would recommend this relaxing book to any fan of the genre.