Jenny Colgan

I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.

— Jenny Colgan

“No, I would say they are more arseholey than you.”

— Jenny Colgan

“I want to go to the party!’ ‘I said no.’ ‘I’ve been totally good.’ ‘You shot me with an arrow.”

— Jenny Colgan

“She's home. That's all. That's true love, I can't explain it any better than that.”

— Jenny Colgan

“My good man, could we have one deadly issue to deal with at a time?”

— Jenny Colgan

Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.

— Jenny Colgan

“If there’s a corner where you plant your heart, it’s always with you.”

— Jenny Colgan

“Books had been her solace when she was sad, her friends when she was lonely. They had mended her heart when it…

— Jenny Colgan

We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and…

— Jenny Colgan

“Life was always easier, reflected Issy, when you were carrying a large Tupperware full of cakes. Everyone was happy to see you…

— Jenny Colgan

“That didn't sound much like a date, Rosie thought. Useful wasn't a word you used about a date. It was a word…

— Jenny Colgan

“Baking is...Life. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes..”

— Jenny Colgan

“Because life is like that, isn’t it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or…

— Jenny Colgan

“It was horribly difficult, she reflected, to have finally found the place you thought of as home, only to realize you were…

— Jenny Colgan

Baking isLife. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes..

— Jenny Colgan

I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the…

— Jenny Colgan

“That thing that everyone talks about. That really big newspaper in the sky that came along and ruined everything else, blah blah…

— Jenny Colgan

“Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and…

— Jenny Colgan

“Then when Matt had come along it hadn't been fireworks, passion and fights and drama. It had been low- key, sweet, lovely.…

— Jenny Colgan

“Some people go through life not really deciding to do much, not wanting to, always too fearful of the consequences to try…

— Jenny Colgan

“She stared into the distance and tried to think, honestly and properly, about her life: up here where it was clearer, and…

— Jenny Colgan

“They were probably reading on their tablets,” said Nina loyally. She loved her e-reader, too. “Yes, I know,” said the man. “But…

— Jenny Colgan

“Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and…

— Jenny Colgan

“Turkish Delight Turkish delight has had a bad reputation since that man C.S.Lewis - a positive genius in other ways - linked…

— Jenny Colgan

“Nina had been told regularly since she was a child that she needed more fresh air, at which she would take her…

— Jenny Colgan

“Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and…

— Jenny Colgan

“This is what you British do not understand about the French. You think you must work, work, work, work and open on…

— Jenny Colgan

Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden…

— Jenny Colgan

“Dear ignoramuses, Halloween is not 'a yankee holiday' celebrated only by gigantic toddlers wearing baseball caps back to front and spraying 'automobiles'…

— Jenny Colgan