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Christmas Cakes and Mistletoe Nights
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond, Carole Matthews
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
Includes an exclusive letter to the listener read by Carole Matthews herself!
Indulge in this lovely, cake-filled novel of romance and friendship. Christmas Cakes and Mistletoe Nights is top three Sunday Times best-selling Carole Matthews at her heart-warming best!
Fay and Danny are madly in love, and it's all Fay's ever dreamed of. But she left everything - including the delightful cake shop she used to run - to be with Danny on his cosy canal boat, The Dreamcatcher. And as she soon finds out, making delicious cakes on the water isn't always smooth sailing!
Then Fay gets a call from her friends, a call that sends her back to her friends and the Cake Shop in the Garden. It will be hard being away from Danny, but their relationship is strong enough to survive...isn't it?
Fay soon falls happily back in love with her passion for baking - especially now she's on dry land again! - and starts to wonder if she ever should have left. With Christmas around the corner, Fay is determined that her friends will have a very merry time, but does that mean even more time away from Danny? Can Fay really get everything she ever wanted in Christmas Cakes and Mistletoe Nights?
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Tiffany
- 11-18-19
LOVELY CHRISTMAS STORY!!!🙂🙂🙂♥️♥️♥️
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I am a huge Carole Matthews fan!!! I fell in love with Carole Matthews books when I first read the cake shop in the garden. Some of my favorite characters in both stories include Lija and Stan! Lija always made me last out loud!! This book TRULY warms my heart.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Hazel Dunfermline
- 11-06-17
Wrong narrator
Usual sweet story from carole Matthews, but narration style and voice sounded too old and didn't fit the character
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- L_McC
- 12-21-18
60 yr old narrator playing 40 yr old character..
I don’t understand the choice of narrator at all! It makes a main character who’s apparently in her early 40’s sound like a pensioner. I’ll keep
Listening as I’ve paid but it’s very off putting.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Mr Peter R Davies
- 12-19-17
Christmas cakes and mistletoe nights
Super story read beautifully by Jilly Bond .who brings the character's to life .will buy on other book by Carol Mathews.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 12-17-17
Poor Narrator story predictable
The story itself was quite festive ... but the Narrator was awful... too older voice for Character and strange inflictions ... kept listening to end
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- BUTTERFLY
- 11-10-17
MY FAVORITE
Great Christmas with Danny and Fay and Jilly Bond (my favorite)!! is as brilliant as ever bringing the characters to life loved it.
Hope there will be another with the new arrival and perhaps another little one on the way for Danny and Fay ........pleeeeeese x
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- Ordinary Everyday Person
- 12-26-20
A great Christmas scene setter
This is a sweet, no brains needed, story.
Bring your heart and your tissues ... sets the Christmas scene perfectly.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Lindsey
- 12-08-19
couldnt bare to listen to the annoying voice
im sorry, but the narration is terrible. i couldnt stand listening anymore !!! shame as i loved reading the first book.
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- Debra
- 01-29-19
Fabulous
Love the continuation of this story,very festive. Hope the story goes on to another book. Love the narrators interpretations of the characters really brings the story to life.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 01-21-19
Feel good, nicey nicey
A nice festive feel good story. It was all a bit nicey nicey and a bit of predictable ending but I wasn't after major drama anyway.
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- J Smith
- 12-30-18
Thoroughly enjoyed this book
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The narration was excellent. Great to have a feel good story. Loved it❤