Huge thanks to Jo Unwin, Lucy Malagoni, Rosanna Forte, Milly Reilly, Donna Greaves, Joanna Kramer, Charlie King, David Shelley, Stephanie Melrose, Gemma Shelley, and all at Little, Brown; Deborah Schneider, Rachel Kahan, Jennifer Hart, Rhina Garcia, and all at William Morrow; Felicitas von Lovenburg, Jennifer Lindstrom, Lina Sjogren, Vivian Leandro, Kjersti Herland Johnsen, Nana Vaz de Castro, Ambre Rouvière, Alexander Cochran, Jake Smith-Bosanquet, and Kate Burton.

Special thanks to Andrew Johnson of Camera Obscura for showing me around that magnificent establishment; Ian Rankin for walking me back from King’s Buildings; Lit Mix; Weegies; and a special thank-you and huge love to Mr. B, who took on every single bit of cooking, housework, and homeschooling during lockdown 3 so I could write this little extra bonus book I was so desperate to write. I can’t express how lucky and grateful I am.

About the Author

JENNY COLGAN is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including The Bookshop on the Corner, Little Beach Street Bakery, and Christmas on the Island, also published by William Morrow. Meet Me at the Cupcake Café won the 2012 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance and was a Sunday Times top-ten bestseller, as was Welcome to Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop of Dreams, which won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013. Jenny was born in Scotland and has lived in London, the Netherlands, the US, and France. She eventually settled in the wettest of all of these places, and currently lives just north of Edinburgh with her husband, Andrew; her dog, Nevil Shute; and her three children: Wallace, who is fourteen and likes pretending to be nineteen and not knowing what this embarrassing “family” thing is that keeps following him about; Michael-Francis, who is twelve and likes making new friends on airplanes; and Delphine, who is ten and is mostly raccoon, as far as we can tell.

Things Jenny likes include: cakes; far too much Doctor Who; wearing Converse every day, so her feet are now just gigantic, big flat pans; baths only slightly cooler than the surface of the sun; and very, very long books, the longer the better. For more about Jenny, visit her website and her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter @jennycolgan.

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Also by Jenny Colgan

Christmas at the Island Hotel

500 Miles from You

The Bookshop on the Shore

Endless Beach

Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery

The Bookshop on the Corner

Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery

The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris

Sweetshop of Dreams

Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

The Good, the Bad, and the Dumped

Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend

Operation Sunshine

West End Girls

Where Have All the Boys Gone?

My Very ’90s Romance

Amanda’s Wedding

Sunrise by the Sea

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