One Golden Summer by Clare Lydon & T.B. Markinson

Author:Clare Lydon & T.B. Markinson [Lydon, Clare & Markinson, T.B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781912019809
Publisher: Custard Books
Published: 2020-06-12T22:00:00+00:00

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“Kirsty, have you tried my new cakes? They’re cream cheese frosted, like the ones they did on The Great British Bake Off last series. Pimped-up madeleines, as one of my customers called them earlier.” Betty grinned from ear to ear as she pointed at the display cabinet. “Can I tempt you? Your mum and dad would love them. Your dad’s in here most days buying something.”

Was he really? That was news. “No thanks, Betty. We’re just in here to order a cake for Ginger’s divorce party.” They all looked and smelled divine. Kirsty had always said bakery staff must be the most content workers on the planet, inhaling the aroma of cake all day long. The sweetness hung in the air like a warm blanket of love.

Betty frowned. “A divorce party? Is that a thing now? I’m not sure a celebratory cake is what’s needed for that, is it?”

“You didn’t know my ex-husband,” Ginger replied, making Kirsty snort. “Can we try the poppy seed and lemon, salted caramel, and the coffee and walnut, please?” Ginger paused. “And you’re invited to the party. Can you make August 17th?”

“Smashing! I do love a party.” Betty clapped her hands together. “Take a seat, I’ll bring the cakes over. On the house, of course.”

“The perfect business arrangement.”

“Not the rainbow cake?” Kirsty pointed at the seven-layered cake done in all the colours of the rainbow.

Ginger gave her a look. “We’ve been through this. You’re gay. Saffron is gay. I, unfortunately, am uncontrollably attracted to men.”

They walked over to a table at the back of the shop and sat.

“Women aren’t any better, believe me.”

“So I’ve heard.” Ginger settled in her seat before she spoke. “I know this is none of my business, and you can tell me to shut up, but has something happened with Saffron? She’s being evasive, even though she’s spent the past ten years of her life telling me she’d love to live near me. Now we live a ten-minute walk apart, and she’s hiding. I was wondering if you knew why.”

Betty brought over the cakes, along with two teas.

Kirsty waited until she’d gone to speak. “I know she’s had a lot of publicity stuff to do with Echo for Girl Racer.” Even saying her name made Kirsty’s brain hurt. “What kind of a name is Echo anyway?” She’d thought that even when she was just Saffron’s co-star. However, now she was impacting her life, Echo’s name seemed totally ridiculous.

A little like Kirsty developing feelings for a movie star.

“An LA name, sweetheart.” Ginger put on her best Californian accent to deliver that line.

Kirsty couldn’t help but smile. “Is it real?”

“As real as anything in Hollywood.” Ginger sighed. “You know what? I don’t know. I don’t know Hollywood. I’ve lived a very different life to Saffron. But I believe what she tells me. She thought things might be different when Echo moved here temporarily. But it turned out, they weren’t.”

Kirsty nodded. She wanted to know more. But she didn’t want to make it look like she was desperate to know all the details.

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