Book Review - The Sunshine Teashop by Jaimie Admans

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Title: The Sunshine Teashop

Author: Jaimie Admans

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Boldwood Books

Publication Date: 30th April 2026

Rating: 5 Stars

Welcome to Thimblenouth: where the kettle is always on and fresh starts and unexpected love are waiting. 🧁🫖

Dolly Lymford is having one of those days…The kind that starts with dreams of opening a café… and ends with discovering your boyfriend kissing your best friend!

Heartbroken and with nowhere else to go, Dolly accidentally-on-purpose borrows her now-ex-boyfriend’s campervan and drives until the road runs out. This leads her to Thimblenouth, a picture-perfect Yorkshire Dales village where life moves more slowly and the kettle is always on.

After literally bumping into gorgeous local builder Reece Sterling, Dolly begins to feel something she hasn’t in a long time: safe. She also rediscovers her love of baking, filling the campervan with the scent of warm scones and freshly brewed tea. And Reece is always around to share a lemon pie or two...

When Dolly has an idea to open her own pop-up café, Reece is all too happy to help. And as the summer sun begins to warm everything it touches, Dolly wonders if she's finally found a place to call home... maybe even with Reece.

But can she really build a future on borrowed wheels?

A warm, uplifting story of fresh starts, village kindness, and finding love where you least expect it — best enjoyed with tea and cake. 🍰

This was a ray of sunshine, that was totally able to brighten up a cold and rainy day for me!  It was a complete and utter joy to read, while I was at day 1 of Queens, waiting for the rain to stop and the tennis to start. 

To say I managed to read the whole book before the majority of the tennis did begin, may give an idea as to how miserable the weather was that day! But thankfully i couldn't have found a better book to pass the time, if I had tried! 

Even on the tube on the way there, I was trying my hardest to not completely and utterly laugh out loud, at various ridiculously funny moments that totally tickled my funny bone, and would have got me some rather odd stares! 

It was a delight to read, Dolly "borrows" her new ex's campervan, and takes it somewhere she hopes no one will notice her, and her initially lime green van.  A hope that would have possibly been more likely had she not injured someone on her first night! Thankfully Reece is very easy going, and tries to look on the bright side of life - even when he has a tent pole in his leg! 

I loved the dynamics between Reece and Dolly, and how he is able to keep her calm and stop her from catastrophising!  

And Dolly is somehow able to bake in this campervan, and starts to make all sorts of retro bakes, which she is then encouraged to sell. 

There is a lovely community in the village and I loved the trio of gossip's attempts to find out info about Reece from Dolly! They are relentless but in a good way! 

This is another fantastic book from an author that always makes me smile.  I couldn't get enough of this story, and I say it really did brighten up what could have been a truly boring day otherwise!  I will though suggest have snacks while you are reading, as it could make you hungry - but perhaps after the first bit, as the descriptions around Dolly and Reece's first meeting may unsettle a stomach! 

Thank you to Boldwood Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.