Inside Paris’s premiere chocolate shop, sometimes dreams really can come true. It’s true that Anna Trent is a supervisor in a chocolate factory…but that doesn’t necessarily mean she knows how to make chocolate. And when a fateful accident gives her the opportunity to work at Paris’s elite chocolatier Le Chapeau Chocolat, Anna expects to be outed as a fraud. After all, there is a world of … all, there is a world of difference between chalky, mass-produced English chocolate and the gourmet confections Anna’s new boss creates. But with a bit of luck and a lot of patience, Anna might learn that the sweetest things in life are always worth working for.
Hopeful, laugh-out-loud funny, and irresistibly addictive, The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris is a novel worth savoring.
Praise for Jenny Colgan:
“Heartwarming…Colgan folds in a colorful cast of characters and whips up a sweet, easy read.”—USA Today
“Absolutely adorable.”—Booklist
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I’ve been reading lots of books about young women headed to Paris–usually after a broken romance or some other life tragedy. This is my favorite so far–the stories of two women, a generation apart, who both sought meaning and love in Paris. Lots of chocolate and Parisian scenery and characters to care about.
Just as she did with the Scottish town of Kirrinfief in The Bookshop on the Corner, Jenny Colgan succeeds once again at drawing the reader into her quirky fictional shop, this time selling chocolate instead of books, and this time in Paris. The dual narrative is nostalgic and sweet, and The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris demands to be read with …
I didn’t like this book when it started – I found Anna to be whiny and obnoxious and almost quit the book. And then, slowly [as Anna is in Paris and is learning her way], surely, I started liking the book AND Anna [she, when put to the test, puts the whine away and shows up and has GUMPTION] and the book just grew on me and I ended up enjoying it …
What a great story. I loved the old and the new, the vivid characters and of course, Paris and chocolate.
The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris was a well-written story, the story just wasn’t for me. The beginning of the book drew me in, and I really liked the main character, but I didn’t feel much of an attachment to any of the other characters. And since this was a dual narrative, the other characters were a major component of the storyline. When I …
I’m used to Jenny Colgan’s light and humorous books, and this one has surprised me from the start with two well-suffering dramas. As I like her stories, I ventured out anyway, because I have finished reading two tragedies and my heart has not yet fully recovered.
Two exciting love stories alternating a love of the past and a love of the present. …
Anna has had a terrible accident at work. She shares her hospital room with her old French teacher from school. They develop a unique friendship. This leads Anna to a new job at a fancy chocolatier shop in Paris.
Anna is a little bit of a scaredy-cat. There were times I wanted to shove her in the right direction. Luckily Claire, her French …
A moving tale of two British women who find love inParis
I must admit, it took me a good part of the book to get into this story told alternately in present day and in flashbacks to a magical summer in 1972. Claire’s story is bittersweet; Anna’s begins with sadness and depression but ends in a joyous atmosphere of good friends well met …
The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris is definitely one of the “loveliest” books I’ve read this year! Jenny Colgan creates a charming story that takes you on a grand adventure in Paris that you won’t soon forget. Her descriptive writing style has you experiencing the sights, sounds and flavors in such a way that you feel like you are in the story …
Anna moves to Paris after she gets a settlement from an accident. she met her old French teacher again while she was in hospital and she arranged for a job there for her with a man she used to know.
Anna loves the work and saves to bring her teacher over to see the man she used to love before she dies. I found this to be a heartwarmning story …
Although Anna seems to be the main character, it feels more like it’s Claire’s “what might have been”.
Their stories are written parallel until it is time for the older, ill Claire to reconnect with the man she never forgot in the city no one can ever forget. Anna escapes herself in Paris with Claire’s help after learning what it is like to have a …
I really enjoy reading this author’s books. In some ways, her books are predictable, and yet, she still surprises me with some twists I wasn’t expecting. They are just fun get-away-from-reality reads.
The book jumps back and forth between present day and one character’s remembrances of her life in the early 70s. It’s still enjoyable and the author does a good job of giving each set of characters their fair amount of “screen time”. I enjoyed the story and it has recipes at the end! Yum!