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The Parisian Christmas Bake Off

By: Jenny Oliver
Narrated by: Jessica Ball
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Welcome to the most celebrated patisserie competition in Paris – ready, steady, bake!

Watching snowflakes settle on the Eiffel Tower, Rachel Smithson’s cosy English village feels very far way – as, thankfully, does her commitment-phobic ex, probably already kissing someone else under the mistletoe. But Rachel hasn’t come to Paris to mope she’s come to bake. Hard.

Because the search for Paris’s next patisserie apprentice is about to begin! And super-chef judge Henri Salernes is an infamously tough cookie. But Rachel isn’t about to let her confidence (or pastry) crumble. She’s got one week, mounds of melt-in-the-mouth macaroons and towers of perfect profiteroles to prove that she really is a star baker.

As well as clouds of flour, and wafts of chocolate and cinnamon, there’s definitely a touch of Christmas magic in the air… Rachel hasn’t come to Paris looking for a fairy-tale romance, but the city of love might gift-wrap her one anyway…

Not even a dusting of icing sugar could make The Parisian Christmas Bake Off a more perfect Christmas treat!

Contemporary Contemporary Romance Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Romance Romantic Comedy Small Town & Rural Women's Fiction Comedy Winter Christmas

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'You know you're in for a treat when you open a Jenny Oliver book' Debbie Johnson
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At the time of writing my review, this book appears to be largely an undiscovered gem 💎, although I bought The Parisian Christmas Bake Off a few years ago now I'm writing this after listening a third time! A light romance, with lovingly crafted descriptions of both ingredients and the sometimes meditative process of baking all wrapped up in a baking competition set in Paris. There's some Christmas theme all whipped up together with lashings of sweet narration, flavours of charm and a little vanilla. There's the odd saboteur in the group of bakers competing which adds a little extra drama and our heroine Rachel is competing slightly reluctantly, even as as she embraces long forgotten skills, memories emerge to take her on a new journey.

A bake off with a difference

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