The Another Cup
1 primary work • 5 total works
Book 1
Thirteen years ago Amy Crane ran away from everyone and everything she knew, ending up in an unfamiliar city with no obvious past and no idea of her future. Now, though, that past has just arrived on her doorstep, in the shape of an old music cassette that Amy hasn’t seen since she was at university.
Digging out her long-neglected Walkman, Amy listens to the lyrics that soundtracked her student days. As long-buried memories are wrenched from the places in her mind where she’s kept them safely locked away for over a decade, Amy is suddenly tired of hiding.
It’s time to confront everything about her life. Time to find all the friends she left behind in England, when her heart got broken and the life she was building for herself got completely shattered. Time to make sense of all the feelings she’s been bottling up for all this time. And most of all, it’s time to discover why Jack has sent her tape back to her now, after all these years…
With her mantra, New life, New job, New home, playing on a continuous loop in her head, Amy gears herself up with yet another a bucket-sized cup of coffee, as she goes forth to lay the ghost of first love to rest...
Fans of Holly Martin and Phillipa Ashley will love this festive short story, featuring much-loved characters from Jenny Kane's bestselling novel Another Cup of Coffee.
When hotshot businesswoman Alice Warren is asked to organise a literary festival at beautiful Crathes Castle in Scotland, her 'work mode' persona means she can't say no - even though the person asking is her ex, Cameron Hunter.
Alice broke Cameron's heart and feels she owes him one - but her best friend Charlie isn't going to like it. Charlie - aka famous author Erin Spence - is happy to help Alice with the festival...until she finds out that Cameron's involved! Charlie suffered a bad case of unrequited love for Cameron, and she can't bear the thought of seeing him again.
Caught between her own insecurities and loyalty to her friend, Charlie gets fellow author Kit Lambert to take her place. Agreeing to leave her London comfort zone - and her favourite corner in Pickwicks Cafe - Kit steps in. She quickly finds herself not just helping out, but hosting a major literary event, while also trying to play fairy godmother - a task which quickly gets very complicated indeed...
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A heart-warming Christmas romance, perfect for fans of Cressida McLaughlin and Holly Martin. Curl up with this delightfully festive short story this Christmas.
Izzie Spencer-Harris, owner of the Cotswold Art and Craft Centre, is due to host the prestigious Cotswold Choir's annual Christmas carol concert in her beautiful converted church. Or at least she was, until a storm smashed a hole right through the chancel roof!
Days from Christmas, Izzie suddenly finds herself up to her neck in DIY, with her last dodgy workman having walked off the job. She does the only thing she can... calls in her best friend Megan to help.
Leaving Peggy and Scott to run Pickwicks Cafe in her absence, Megan heads to the Cotswolds for Christmas. Within minutes of her arrival, she finds herself hunting down anyone willing to take on extra work so close to Christmas. It seems the only person available to help is Joseph Parker - a carpenter who, while admittedly gorgeous, seems to have ulterior motives for everything he does...
With Izzie's bossy mother, Lady Spencer-Harris, causing her problems at every turn, an accident at work causing yet more delays, and the date for the concert drawing ever nearer, it's going to take a lot more than Mrs Vickers' powerful mulled wine to make sure everything is all right on the night...
Readers love Jenny Kane:
'This is a delightful short story with that lovely Christmas feel good feeling'
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'Very festive short story with lovely characters. . . Cosy, ideal reading for Christmas time'
'Perfect for the Christmas season. Heartwarming, emotional and so true for today's hectic, manic life. One to have, keep, and enjoy!!'
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Fortysomething Amy is shocked and delighted to discover she's expecting a baby - not to mention terrified! Amy wants best friend Jack to be godfather, but he hasn't been heard from in months.
When Jack finally reappears, he's full of good intentions - but his new business plan could spell disaster for the beloved Pickwicks Coffee Shop, and ruin a number of old friendships... Meanwhile his love life is as complicated as ever - and yet when he swears off men for good, Jack meets someone who makes him rethink his priorities...but is it too late for a fresh start?
Author Kit has problems of her own: just when her career has started to take off, she finds herself unable to write - and there's a deadline looming, plus two headstrong kids to see through their difficult teenage years...will she be able to cope?
A warm-hearted, contemporary tale about a group of friends living in a small corner of busy London, by bestselling author Jenny Kane. Perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley, Katie Fforde and Jenny Colgan.
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'This beautiful story pulled me in and immersed me in the lives of the wonderful characters' Amazon reviewer
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Five years ago the staff of Pickwicks Cafe in Richmond were thrown into turmoil when their cook and part-owner, Scott, had a terrible accident. With help from his friends, his wife Peggy, and the staff at the local hospital, he made an amazing recovery. Now Pickwicks is preparing to host a special Christmas fundraiser for the hospital department that looked after Scott.
Pickwicks’ waitress Megan has been liaising with the ward’s administrator, Nick, as all the staff who helped Scott’s recovery are invited are invited. As the problems of organising the fundraiser take up more and more of their busy lives, Megan and Nick contact each other more frequently, and their emails and phone calls start to develop from the practical into the flirty.
But can you actually fall for someone you’ve never met?
As the fundraiser draws closer, Megan is beginning to think that she had imagined all the virtual flirting between herself and Nick – he promised to arrange to meet her for real, but he hasn’t done so. Now he’s bringing someone with him to the fundraiser, and they’re just bound to be everything Megan feels she isn’t ...
Another Cup of Christmas is a festive sequel (of sorts!) to Jenny Kane’s fantastic debut romance, Another Cup of Coffee.