The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods ~ a Review

by Susan Roberts

Edie is … not in Paris?

Edie Lane left everything behind in Ireland for a once-in-a-lifetime job at a bakery in Paris. Except, thanks to a mistranslation, the bakery is not in Paris, and neither is Edie.

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April 2025; One More Chapter; 978-0008713225
audio, ebook, print (352 pages); women's fiction

I really enjoyed this book.  It was a combination of historical fiction, romance and  mystery with a bit of magic thrown in.  It all worked well together and I found the characters to be very likeable and the story was well written and kept me turning pages until the happily-ever-after ending.

Edie Lane lived in Ireland with her father.  She was having trouble coping with the recent death of her mother and when she saw an advertisement for a job opening in Paris, she decided that spending time in the city that she and her mom had talked about so much would help her deal with the loss of her mom.  When she got to Paris, she found out that she had made a mistake and the bakery was in Compiègne about an hour north of Paris.  When she got to the bakery, she was met by the grouchy older manager, a quiet teenage boy who delivered bread and lots of secrets!  The bakery is old, her room in the attic is cold and she is forbidden to enter the basement where the ovens are.  After the first week, she's ready to go home but then she makes some friends and starts to enjoy her work at the bakery.  Along with new friends, she meets a man from London who she thinks may be the ONE!  Of course, she isn't happy with the secrets at the bakery and starts to try to figure out what is going on and why the truth is being kept from her.  After being unsure at first if the bakery in Compiègne is really where she wants to be she becomes convinced that she is exactly where she needs to be and where she can help the most people.

This book could have been just a straight romance but the history of the Holocaust and how it affected the people in the town creates a much more serious theme.  I thought that the author tied the story together very well and I was definitely happy with the way it ended.    

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Susan Roberts grew up in Michigan but loves the laid-back life at her home in the Piedmont area of North Carolina where she is three hours from the beach to the east and the mountains in the west.  She reads almost anything but her favorite genres are Southern Fiction and Historical Fiction.   

 

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