Book Review - Tilly's Tuscan Teashop by Daisy James

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Title: Tilly's Tuscan Teashop

Author: Daisy James

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Author supplied copy

Publisher: Self Published

Publication Date: 28th October 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

Welcome to Tilly's Tuscan Teashop, the first book in a brand new series from the author of the Hummingbird Hotel and the Cornish Confetti Agency series.

When photographer Natalie Nicholson’s beach hut studio – and everything she’s spent the last two years working on – is destroyed in a fire, she doesn’t think things can get any worse. Until she sees her boyfriend Josh Clarke on Instagram frolicking on a palm-fringed Balinese beach with a fellow cabin crew member.

Devastated and heartbroken, she heads to Italy to help out at her sister’s English teashop in the heart of the Tuscan countryside, where she encounters sun-dappled hilltop villages with attractive terracotta bell towers, cobbled piazzas housing world-famous art and architecture, and a national fixation with getting from A to B as quickly as possible whether in a glamourous Ferrari, a scarlet Vespa, or a snail-like ape.

With handsome local filmmaker-cum-waiter Matteo Ferretti on hand to guide her, can Tilly learn to ditch her workaholic ways and embrace the Italian pursuit of la dolce vita? Or will she miss out on her chance at a happy-ever-after?

Always a joy to read a new Daisy James novel, and with this one being the start of a new series I was doubly happy.

Well triply happy when I saw the setting was Italy and quadruply happy once I figured out there was plenty of tasty sounding food too.

And it certainly didn't disappoint. I was hooked from the initial pages, and could instantly see how this is a series,  each going to be featuring different characters who all have studios in Blossom Bay.

However when disaster struck, followed by finding out her relationship isn't as good as she thought, Tilly agreed to help with her sisters teashop in Tuscany.

And what a life changing adventure that turned out to be. 

I just loved every second of her time in Tuscany, from her ideas for the teashop, her new friends and well Matteo. 

There is so much to enjoy with this story.  I heartily recommend escaping to Italy with Tilly. You won't regret it. 

Thank you to the author for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.