Josephine Moon Bücher

Wenn einem das Leben Kakaobohnen gibt, sollte man Schokolade daraus machen ... Christmas Livingstone glaubt fest an zehn Regeln für ein glückliches Leben. Eine lautet: Mit etwas Schokolade kann eigentlich alles nur besser werden. Das beweist Christmas jeden Tag mit den Köstlichkeiten, die sie in ihrer „Schokoladenapotheke“ verkauft und denen viele sogar Heilkräfte zuschreiben. Regel Nr. 1 der jungen Frau – keine romantischen Beziehungen! – ist da schon schwerer umzusetzen. Christmas hat nämlich nicht mit Lincoln van Luc gerechnet, einem Botaniker und Weltenbummler mit strahlenden blauen Augen, einer bezaubernden Großmutter und einem treuen Findlings-Hund ...

Life in the village isn't always sweet and simple . . . When single mum Olivia uproots her young son Darcy from their life in Tasmania for a new start in the English Cotswolds, she isn't exactly expecting a bed of roses - but nor is she prepared for the challenges that life in the picturesque village throws her way. The Renaissance Project hopes to bring the dwindling community back to life - to welcome migrants from around the world and to boost the failing economy - but not everyone is so pleased about the initiative. For cake maker Olivia, it's a chance for Darcy to finally meet his Norwegian father, and for her to trace the last blurry lines on what remains of her family tree. It's also an opportunity to move on from the traumatic event that tore her loved ones apart. After seven years on her own, she has all but given up on romance, until life dishes up some delicious new options she didn't even know she was craving. An uplifting and heartwarming story about the moments that change your life forever, human kindness and being true to yourself.

Award-winning jam maker Aggie is determined to take her Barossa Valley cafe to new heights. She has put the pain of unsuccessful IVF treatments and a broken relationship behind her, and is focused on the many wonderful possibilities life still holds in store. When an invitation to travel across Australia on the Ghan for her mother's seventieth birthday comes her way, she is at first apprehensive. But the trip offers a precious opportunity to spend some quality time with both her disgruntled mother, Valeria, and her distant daughter, Holly, as well as her meddling great-aunt, Myrtle. The four generations of the family, all single women, will be reunited at last. As the iconic train chugs its way beneath majestic desert skies, Aggie's difficult past resurfaces, her business comes under threat, and long-held family rifts reignite. To complicate things further, she's distracted by the attentions of a handsome younger man on his own search for meaning in some of the country's most remote and magical places. By the bestselling author of The Cake Maker's Wish, this is a sweet and soulful story about women being there for each other through the stickiest situations. It celebrates the joys and sorrows of life, and reveals the essential ingredients of the true recipe for happiness.

Josephine Moon's third absorbing novel, The Beekeeper's Secretintriguingly blends her trademark warmth and sensitivity with darker themes of guilt and grief.