Hubble Bubble

✍ Scribed by Jones, Christina

• Publisher: Hachette UK
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 180 KB
• Series: Mad Villages 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Hubble bubble, toil and trouble, Casserole burn and intrigues double 'Mitzi Blessing is on the scrapheap: forced into a very early retirement, a lifetime of organising the church flower rota and making cricket teas seems to loom gloomily ahead of her. With her two daughters seemingly happily settled, Mitzi is determined not to dwindle quietly into serene old age and sets about organising and revitalising Hazy Hassocks, the small rural community she has lived in all her life. However, with the discovery of her grandmother's cookery book in the attic,life for Mitzi and her friends and family starts to get very interesting. Full of old-fashioned recipes with enchanting names like Wishes Come True Pie, Mischief Night Cake, and Powers of Persuasion Pudding - Granny's dishes provide a nourishing meal, but they also seem to have some very surprising side effects indeed.

Review

H.E. Bates for the 21st Century (Katie Fforde) sexy...unputdownable...a heart-thumping read (Company) feisty tale of friendship and laughter, loyalty and love...engaging (The Times) must read...fun-packed tale (The Sun)

About the Author

The only child of a schoolteacher and a circus clown, Christina Jones has been writing all her life. As well as writing novels, Christina contributes short stories and articles to national magazines and newspapers. Christina lives with her husband Rob and a houseful of rescued cats.