The Cornish Cream Tea Bus

The Cornish Cream Tea Bus
Cressida McLaughlin

Next stop, Cornwall! Hop on The Cornish Cream Tea Bus for a delicious, romantic adventure… ‘Captivating’ Heat Magazine ‘Beautiful… heartwarming’ Zara Stoneley ‘A wonderful ray of reading sunshine’ Heidi Swain Baking fanatic, Charlie Quilter, inherits a vintage bus in her late uncle’s will and is keen to give it a new lease of life. Charlie thinks it will be the perfect mobile café for afternoon tea, so she heads to the picturesque Cornish village of Porthgolow, hoping for a new start. However, Daniel Harper, the owner of the posh spa up on the hill isn’t very pleased that her bus is parked outside his lovely hotel. Has Charlie’s Cornish dream developed a soggy bottom? Or can she convince Daniel that her bus could take them somewhere wonderful?

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First published in Great Britain as ebook serial in four separate parts

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Source ISBN: 9780008332181

Ebook Edition © August 2019 ISBN: 9780008332198

Version: 2019-07-12

Dedication (#u90bcb1e5-7bea-5b33-84ad-b58278aa9677)

To Hannah Ferguson – thank you for everything that you do

Contents

Cover (#u28b63a9f-4e73-585f-b0c8-524075dd5319)

Title Page (#uf0c58422-2466-552d-abc1-aea212630ffe)

Copyright

Dedication

Part 1: Don’t Go Baking My Heart

Chapter One (#u35bd83df-4e74-53cd-bc93-e1bd8976b32b)

Chapter Two (#uc935d6b8-4ad8-504f-95fc-5e16164233ee)

Chapter Three (#u95d1a26c-a3bd-5f99-941d-ff083e543955)

Chapter Four (#u6fd06a9f-9c49-512b-89c0-cc03b1a2ffd0)

Chapter Five (#u0147dc80-1e21-58a4-bfa2-4984cd9ab01e)

Chapter Six (#u2712e0bf-7c11-535c-b037-ef06ae49e6be)

Chapter Seven (#u74223e11-7d46-5ff9-a0b3-1d22c6af2382)

Chapter Eight (#uc9905155-904c-5cad-9b39-75486018f62c)

Part 2: The Éclair Affair

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Part 3: Scones Away

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)