A Winter in New York
The delicious new wintery romance from the author of One Day in December
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4.1 • 35 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
'A tender, heart-felt read, with the perfect blend of ingredients: New York, food, family and romance!' Sophie Cousens
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Where better to start again than New York?
Iris arrives in the city of dreams, intent on restarting her culinary career, and leaving her recent heartache behind.
Wandering the streets at a famous food festival, Iris feels like she's living in a movie. Then she stumbles upon a gelateria that looks strangely familiar. Inside, she meets Gio: a perfect leading man with an irresistible smile - and a crisis of his own.
As fate would have it, Iris is the one person with the answer to his problem. She just can't tell him that . . .
So, can Iris finally let go of the past - and let herself fall in love?
A sumptuously cosy seasonal love story set in sparkling New York, from the queen of the 'what if?' romance Josie Silver.
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'Joyous, uplifting and heart-racingly romantic. I devoured it. You'll find me in Little Italy licking gelato off a hot Italian stallion's chest' Cathy Bramley
'A unique and gorgeously written love story bursting with characters you'll want to protect' Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
'Deliciously romantic - I loved everything about it' Libby Page
'A magical love story that had me hooked from the first page' Cressida McLaughlin
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Silver (One Night on the Island) offers a middling contemporary rom-com full of manufactured drama and pointless miscommunication. London chef Iris Raven flees her abusive relationship, leaving Britain for New York City. There, she discovers that her mother's signature gelato recipe is the same as the top-secret recipe of a local gelateria, Belotti's. With the chef and Belotti family patriarch in the hospital, the recipe is lost and Gio Belotti, a handsome widower, struggles to keep the business afloat. Gio also believes Iris is a widow due to their snappish first meeting at a bookstore during which she lied to win an argument. Instead of explaining the situation and offering her mother's recipe, Iris embarks on a convoluted scheme to secretly steer Gio toward the correct recipe over the course of months. Their slow-burning romance is interspersed with flashbacks to her mother Vivien's time in 1980s New York—and her own love affair with a Belotti man. Iris is the maudlin author of her own misery, propelling the paper-thin plot forward through a series of bizarre choices. All but Silver's most devoted fans can skip this one.
Customer Reviews
Enjoyable
Josie Silver is a new author to me and I am shocked that I have not come across this author before. This may have been my first book, but it will not be my last.
Iris has been through a lot with the passing of her mother and finally escaping an abusive relationship. in an effort to restart her life she moves to New York. However, she isn’t prepared for all that New York city entails and when she comes across a Gelateria shop, that looks familiar to a photo she has from her late mother, in Little Italy, she is intrigued.
Meeting Gio, she finds out that the family Gelato maker is in a coma and is the only one who knows the recipe that has made them such a success. This is where it gets complicated when Iris realises that both gelato’s are the same. How can this be?
What happens when secrets are revealed? Will Iris and Gio’s blossoming relationship survive?
One click and find out. I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley.