• Little Beach Street Bakery

  • Little Beach Street Bakery Series #1
  • By: Jenny Colgan
  • Narrated by: Veida Dehmlow
  • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (910 ratings)

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Little Beach Street Bakery

By: Jenny Colgan
Narrated by: Veida Dehmlow
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Publisher's summary

Polly Waterford is recovering from a toxic relationship. Unable to afford their flat, she has to move miles away from everyone, to a sleepy little seaside resort in Cornwall, where she lives alone above an abandoned shop. And so Polly takes out her frustrations on her favorite hobby: making bread.

But what was previously a weekend diversion suddenly becomes far more important as she pours her emotions into kneading and pounding the dough, and each loaf becomes better and better. With nuts and seeds, olives and chorizo, with local honey (courtesy of local beekeeper, Huckle), and with reserves of determination and creativity Polly never knew she had, she bakes and bakes and bakes...and people start to hear about it. Sometimes bread really is life...and Polly is about to reclaim hers.

©2014 Jenny Colgan (P)2015 Tantor

Critic reviews

"This confection of a novel...will please her fans and can be recommended to readers who enjoy novels by Jill Mansell and Jojo Moyes." ( Booklist)

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A Bakery You Wish You Could Go To

Delightful story with likable characters. The baking description are so real, you smell the bread and wish you had a loaf with you.

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Fun story

A woman rebuilding her life. She is a little too meek for my tastes but she did get me on her side.

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sign me up to move there!moving there!

l loved it so very much, it reminds me if OBX I want to sit in her Cafe hand have a sweet bread with but just be perfect

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Love it! Well worth the time to listen.

Love it! Well worth the time to listen. I've found a fun new author to enjoy!

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Great story

This story was lovely and fun. I’m in love with Neil! The narrator was hood also. Looking forward to the next in the series.

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Voices are annoying.

The narrator’s idea of what people with a Southern Drawl sounds like is odd. Polly’s love interest sounds like an old pirate as does her friend the fisherman. It’s hard to imagine Huck being a youngish man because of his voice.

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An escape book

What fun to escape into a lovely story of failure and ending of a relationship into victory of hard work and determination. The character, Polly, turns her passion of baking into a new but uncertain life on her own.

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The narrator sounded too old for the part and when reading Huck's part, sounded like a 80 year old hillbilly.

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Cute story. Terrible narrator!_

This narrator has the most annoying voices for all of the male characters and even the chicken sound! I can't even finish the book!

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Great story but…

That narrator? Just the worst. I almost returned it when she tried doing a southern drawl for Huck. What in the world? The worst narrator of a y audible book ever.

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