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2000s: Life is a journey..in ways you would never expect!
Rosie’s Travelling Tea Shop
What you need to know before your trail
Rosie Lewis has her life together. A swanky job as a Michelin-Starred Sous Chef, a loving husband and future children scheduled for exactly January 2021. That’s until she comes home one day to find her husband’s pre-packed bag and a confession that he’s had an affair.
Heartbroken and devastated, Rosie drowns her sorrows only to discover the following morning that she has spontaneously invested in a bright pink campervan to facilitate her grand plans to travel the country.
Now, Rosie is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime, and the chance to change her life! With Poppy, her new-found travelling tea shop in tow, nothing could go wrong, could it…?
Travel Guide
Travel BookTrail style around the UK with Rosie and her Travelling Teashop
Where doesn’t she go? Well, if you have a campervan, Glastonbury and Stonehenge are a must. Then there’s a drive across the Clifton Suspension Bridge, a visit to Hay on Wye – the book capital of the country!
There’s reason to focus on Hay – it gets a lovely mention as the setting of the famous book festival which takes place in the town every year. There are more bookshops here than anywhere else compared to the population size. And these are very special and unique shops. How Rosie managed to leave is one thing. How she managed to leave without a campervan full of books is quite another.
There’s lot of lovely mentions of food too. From buying supplies before the journey in Billingsgate Market and Borough Market in London and there’s a nice mention of Alnwick in Northumberland for the food festival.
Booktrailer Review
Susan @thebooktrailer
I think there’s a little part of most of us who would love to do what Rosie does in this book. I certainly would. Buy a campervan and tour the country? Not sure about the cooking bit as I’m hardly Prue Leith but I’d taste someone else’s efforts no problem!
This was fun and uplifting and just the tonic I needed when reading it. It’s fun and light but there are serious overtones of starting over, finding yourself and changing your life when things aren’t going well. There’s a lot to like there and plenty to link it to your own life.
The tour was great – they go to Bristol, Hay on Wye (oooh the books!) and even up to Alnwick to the food festival there. I lingered on the Hay on Wye pages to be honest. IF I’d been in that campervan, the food would have gone at this point and the title of the story would have to have been changed to Rosie’s Travelling Bookshop.
It’s a fun story but an uplifting one too and a nice easy read with fun, warm characters. Put a smile on my face!
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Rosie’s Travelling Tea shop
Destination: England, Bristol, London, Hay on Wye Author/Guide: Rebecca Raisin Departure Time: 2000s
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