{"id":501020672,"date":"2015-07-03T07:48:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T05:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snowglitter.blogg.se\/2015\/july\/afternoon-tea-at-the-sunflower-cafe-milly-johnson.html"},"modified":"2015-07-03T07:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T05:48:23","slug":"2015_july_afternoon-tea-at-the-sunflower-cafe-milly-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/03\/2015_july_afternoon-tea-at-the-sunflower-cafe-milly-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon tea at the Sunflower Caf\u00e9 &#8211; Milly Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11352139_1593036360984680_613866411_n_55961df32a6b2298f5d1bb96.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" class=\"image\" data-oid=\"55961df32a6b2298f5d1bb96\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>Titel: <\/strong>Afternoon tea at the Sunflower Caf\u00e9<br \/><strong>F\u00f6rfattare<\/strong>: Milly Johnson<\/p>\n<div><strong>Spr\u00e5k<\/strong>: Engelska<\/div>\n<div><strong>Sidantal<\/strong>: 513<\/div>\n<div><strong>F\u00f6rlag: <\/strong>Simon &amp; Schuster UK<\/div>\n<div><strong>Format<\/strong>: H\u00e4ftad<\/div>\n<div><strong>Utgiven<\/strong>: juni 2015<\/div>\n<p><strong>Handling<\/strong>: <em>&#8221;<span id=\"freeText11451201389471238300\">Her marriage is all washed up. It&#8217;s time for a clean start. <br \/>Connie Diamond has always been her husband Jimmy&#8217;s &#8217;best girl&#8217; &#8211; or so she thought. But then she discovers that he&#8217;s been playing away for the past twenty-four years, and that the chocolates she believed he bought her as a sign of his love were just a cover-up, and she is determined to get revenge.<br \/> Along with Della Frostick, Jimmy&#8217;s right-hand woman at his cleaning firm, Diamond Shine, Connie decides to destroy Jimmy&#8217;s life from the inside. Together they will set up a rival business called Lady Muck, and along with the cleaning ladies who meet at the Sunflower Caf\u00e9 they&#8217;ll make him wish he had never so much as looked at another woman. <br \/> Then Connie meets the charming Brandon Locke, a master chocolatier, whose kind chocolate-brown eyes start to melt her soul. Can the ladies of the Sunflower Caf\u00e9 help Connie scrub away the hurt? And can Brandon cure her affliction and make her smile again?&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><span><br \/><\/span><\/em><span>Det \u00e4r den tredje boken av Milly Johnson som jag l\u00e4st, och jag st\u00e5r fast vid att hon \u00e4r en av de duktigaste p\u00e5 att skriva verklighetstrogna karakt\u00e4rer. Boken kretsar kring tre olika kvinnor, Connie, Cheryl och Della. Det de tre kvinnorna har gemensamt \u00e4r Jimmy Diamond. Cheryl jobbar som st\u00e4derska p\u00e5 hans st\u00e4dfirma, Della jobbar i kontoret med Jimmy och Connie \u00e4r Jimmys fru. Della f\u00e5r nys om att Jimmy bedrar Connie och besluter sig f\u00f6r att ber\u00e4tta f\u00f6r henne, trots att de inte k\u00e4nner varandra. Connie best\u00e4mmer sig f\u00f6r en h\u00e4mnd om Jimmy sent ska gl\u00f6mma; hon \u00f6ppnar en egen konkurrerande st\u00e4dfirma kallat Lady Muck. Della best\u00e4mmer sig f\u00f6r att hj\u00e4lpa till och saboterar Jimmys f\u00f6retag inifr\u00e5n.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/>Det var inte den b\u00e4sta jag l\u00e4st av Johnson, jag tyckte boken kretsade lite f\u00f6r mycket p\u00e5 jobbet\/f\u00f6retagen och boken var kanske on\u00f6digt l\u00e5ng med sina +500 sidor. Men jag tycker \u00e4nd\u00e5 det var en mycket trevlig bok och jag blev v\u00e4ldigt involverad i deras liv. Titeln sa inte s\u00e5 mycket om boken, originaltiteln var faktiskt &#8221;The woman who gave up chocolate&#8221;, som skulle passat mycket b\u00e4ttre. Jimmy k\u00f6pte n\u00e4mligen choklad \u00e5t Connie p\u00e5 alla hans aff\u00e4rsresor. Ja, f\u00f6rutom att han aldrig var p\u00e5 riktiga aff\u00e4rsresor och att det var hans assistent Della som k\u00f6pte dem. Efter det ville inte Connie ens komma i n\u00e4rheten av choklad. Tills hon tr\u00e4ffar en fruktansv\u00e4rt s\u00f6t konditor som lagar choklad..<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Jag tycker om de engelska inslagen i hennes b\u00f6cker, jag l\u00e4r mig verkligen nya intryck. Till exempel hade jag helt gl\u00f6mt att engelsm\u00e4nnen s\u00e4ger &#8221;the pictures&#8221; ist\u00e4llet f\u00f6r &#8221;the cinema&#8221;. Jag m\u00e4rker att jag ofta l\u00e4ser &#8221;i huvudet&#8221; med brittisk accent. Tidigare l\u00e4st av Milly Johnson \u00e4r<a href=\"http:\/\/snowglitter.blogg.se\/2014\/december\/a-winter-flame-2.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> A winter flame<\/span><\/a> och<a href=\"http:\/\/snowglitter.blogg.se\/2015\/february\/a-spring-affair-milly-johnson.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> A spring affair<\/span><\/a>.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><em>Betyg:<\/em><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rating3_552b87ce2a6b22a6afbaa1eb.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" class=\"image\" data-oid=\"552b87ce2a6b22a6afbaa1eb\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Titel: Afternoon tea at the Sunflower Caf\u00e9F\u00f6rfattare: Milly Johnson Spr\u00e5k: Engelska Sidantal: 513 F\u00f6rlag: Simon &amp; Schuster UK Format: H\u00e4ftad Utgiven: juni 2015 Handling: &#8221;Her marriage is all washed up. It&#8217;s time for a clean start. Connie Diamond has always been her husband Jimmy&#8217;s &#8217;best girl&#8217; &#8211; or so she thought. But then she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[87,147,541,636],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501020672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501020672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501020672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501020672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501020672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowglitterbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501020672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}