Oh Crumbs… Kathryn Freeman

Book Blurb

Sometimes life just takes the biscuit …

Abby Spencer knows she can come across as an airhead – she talks too much and is a bit of a klutz – but there’s more to her than that. Though she sacrificed her career to help raise her sisters, a job interview at biscuit company Crumbs could finally be her chance to shine. That’s until she hurries in late wearing a shirt covered in rusk crumbs, courtesy of her baby nephew, and trips over her handbag. 

Managing director Douglas Faulkner isn’t sure what to make of Abby Spencer with her Bambi eyes, tousled hair and ability to say more in the half-hour interview than he manages in a day. All he knows is she’s a breath of fresh air and could bring a new lease of life to the stale corporate world of Crumbs. To his life too, if he’d let her. 
But Doug’s harbouring a secret. He’s not the man she thinks he is. 

My review

Okay, so I downloaded this book under false pretences. Yup. That’s right. You know that feeling when you buy something, expecting one thing and you’re dragged, kicking and screaming, into something else? I was expecting fluff, of the pink, sugar-coated kind. I’d just come out of reading a killer thriller (see previous review) and wanted to dilute the book hangover. In biscuit terms you could say I thought I was getting an Iced Gem and I ended up with a dark chocolate digestive. But the thing is I love digestives, they’re my favourite biscuits after all. What I expected demolished on page one, the prologue, when I was plonked Into the middle of a funeral. You can’t get less fluffy than grief to help set the tone of a book. 

Abigail (Abby) has had a tough childhood, if you can even call it that because from twelve-years she’s been both older sister and surrogate mother to her siblings. But that aside now at twenty-four she has a degree under her belt in addition to a fine repertoire of PC swears (Oh Crumbs). She manages to snag the attention of her new boss, Doug. 

Doug hasn’t had such an easy childhood. If his parents bought biscuits they’d be shipped over from Fortnum’s before being layered onto a silver platter. I think you get the gist. But he likes Abby. Abby despite, or maybe because of, her upbringing is a breath of fresh air in his routine, pressure filled life. But Doug can’t take this golden opportunity to change his life… 

This  is the second book I’ve read by this author but it won’t be the last. Turning the opening pages was like finding an unexpected fiver in the zip of my purse, a surprise but not an unpleasant one. The writing is strong and the humour always present but more the quiet giggle than the LOL variety. I read this in one sitting when I really shouldn’t have but hey, that’s what a good book is meant to do. Superb ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Out on 12th June here 

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