Can all three find the comfort they are looking for in The Teashop on the Corner? And as their hearts are slowly mended by Leni, can they return the favour when she needs it most? Molly Jones is being bullied into going into a retirement home by her ‘concerned’ daughter-in-law Sherry and son Gram. Then the love of Molly’s life walks in through her door – a man who broke Molly’s heart into little pieces many years ago. But he says he is dying and wants to spend the time he has left with her. And finally there's Leni - owner of the teashop, baker of cakes, fixer and arranger, but who is hiding heartache and pain beneath her smiling exterior.

Milly Johnson fans will be delighted by The Teashop on the Corner, and new readers of this author will wonder why they've not read her books before now.I think I have never before struggled so much to write a review. Here the reason is very simple: this story was about normal people, about friendship and forgiveness and it was just beautiful. And here my review could end because I guess I can never in a million years do this book a justice with my words. But I'll try anyway. Molly thinks that she loses it, or rather her son and her daughter - in - law try to persuade her that she loses it and want her to move to a care home. But Molly is full of life and full in control of her life although she can't guess that her long - lost true love will turn one day on her doorstep and that his return will actually change the rest of her life. With so many characters, and so many alternating plots, with the story told from so many point of views there was not a single moment that I felt confused or didn't know who is who. They stories and characters are just brilliantly written and developed and I can't say that I have my favourites. I had fell for all of them and kept my fingers crossed for all of them, I actually felt that I live and breath with them. They are all on crossroads with their lives, they have their challenges and perhaps this makes this book so exceptional and realistic in perception. Milly Johnson is an exceptional writer. She can capture characters, emotions and feelings in a magic way and then write about them with heart and love. I could feel that she gave the characters everything she could. They felt so real, not at all overdrawn, they were vivid and everything that happened in the book you could relate to, you could nod with understanding and gasp and say: oh my goodness, I know! A mi parte romántica le habría gustado que la historia de Leni y Shaw estuviera más desarollada, aunque lo cierto es que es casi perfecta.

This was such a charming little book. I'd never read anything by and never heard of Milly Johnson before, so I didn't know what to expect. I assumed it would be a light and fluffy romance. It was much more than that: yes it is a romance, but it also has some dramatic elements to it. Even though there are some happy endings, they're not cheesy at all; they're quite realistic. And not everyone is fortunate to get a 'happily ever after' ending. The book totally reminds me of the movie Love Actually. Several characters are introduced at the beginning, and the chapters alternate between the different plots. But then, some way or another all the characters find their ways to the Teashop on the Corner, so their stories intertwine. New friendships and love relationships develop. And at this point, the book started to make me think about what I call the Facebook phenomenon. I have always thought that Facebook is actually a "Fakebook", meaning that everyone on it pretends to have a perfect life, even though everybody has lots of skeletons in their closets. But online you can pretend not to have any. By contrast, in real life you can only hide your skeletons temporarily. But real friendship/love is about loving each other with/despite our skeletons. All the characters have their skeletons, and of course they try to hide them, but life forces them to reveal their secrets. But thankfully they have people around them who don't mind their skeletons at all. And those are the moments when highly sensitive people (like me) start crying, and then cry and cry... (And then the book becomes a favourite...) Spring Hill Square is a pretty sanctuary away from the bustle of every day life. And at its centre is Leni Merryman’s Teashop on the Corner, a place where three people will find a friend to lean on:El café de los corazones solitarios" es una novela coral, en mi oponión hay dos historias principales y dos (o tres, según se mire) historias secundarias y el hilo que las une con elegancia es el café del título, que casi tiene vida propia. Al principio me costó un poco entrar en la historia pues los capítulos son muy cortos y la autora los utuliza para ir cambiando el punto de vista de narrador, que siempre es en tercera persona. Pero cuando entré en la dinámica me resultó fascinante y debo confesar que admiro a la autora por ser capaz de llevar tantas historias al mismo tiempo. Carla has just laid her husband to rest but has now found out an explosive secret he had been hiding. Business man Will has lost everything his business, his money, his home and now his wife. The lovely Molly has been heartbroken for many years and now out of the blue her ex arrives on her doorstep but can she forgive him? Leni has just opened her teashop in a development of new shops, she has created her shop with great care and it encompasses everything that she loves most in life; cake, books and meeting people. The story revolves around the teashop and it's customers; a bunch of people who would be unlikely to meet if it were not for this little oasis of calm that begins to be very important to them all. Molly Jones’s ex-husband Harvey has reappeared in her life after many years, wanting to put right the wrongs of the past before it is too late.