Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Care for a warm, hearty brew with a bit of spice? Try The Tea Chest…
The Tea Chest
What you need to know before your trail
Can you really sell tea to the English?
Can an Australian ever hope to run a successful tea shop deep in the heart of London?
Kate Fullerton, certainly hopes so.
For Kate is a talented tea designer and now co-owner of The Tea Chest in Chelsea, London. But as she embarks on this personal mission, she is risking more personal issues at home.
Then she meets Leila and Elizabeth – two women with issues of their own and their stories are about to combine in ways that blend each of the characters together like a good cup of tea.
The Tea Chest has more spice that your average Masala chai!
Travel Guide
Imagine opening up your very own tea shop – especially if it was like this!
“Kate had been busy with personal consultations for individual tea blends.”
“Elizabeth had gone for a peppermint- chocolate chai. She’d even found a min-green and chocolate -brown vintage dress….Leila had decide on a vanilla and marshmallow chai, with wee pieces of marshmallow included.”
Even before you open up this book, the cover is a treat in itself – bunting, yellow wooden walls and the most gorgeous tea cups and tea pot you could ever imagine.
Tip the book upside down and you risk all the tea leaves inside cascading fragrantly towards the floor. This book immerses you in to the world of tea, the art of tea drinking and the myriad of tea flavours to feed your soul. It’s a wonderful place to be.
London’s Kings Road is where the teashop is located and sadly the tea shop itself is fictional but there are really lots of nice tea shops on the street and the fun is in the search!
Other places of note – The Victoria on Hyde Park Road – Elizabeth and her sister enjoy lunch here, Covent Garden – where the girls go shopping, Portobello Road gets a mention for its shopping and unique feel and also Sloane Street for the scene where the riots occur.
The book starts off in Brisbane Australia and then moves overseas!
Booktrailer Review
Susan:
Now this book not only came delivered by the most smiley postman ever, but it came wrapped in the most gorgeous tea towel with a tea bag inside!
Don’t think that this book is light and fluffy chick lit- far from it although it is charming and funny in many parts, this is a novel and the trials and tribulations of friendship as well as being an enchanting and witty novel about the unexpected ways in which love and friendship can see us through life.
It is written with a lot of heart and with both sugar and spice each page infused with rose, camomile and other tea combinations.
The story is as unique as the tea blends it showcases.A debut taster for the joys of more evocative writing to come! And don’t miss the tea recipes and tips at the back of the book – for the best tea tasting tips from Josephine herself. Sit back, taste and enjoy!
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