The Second Chance Cafe in Carlton Square — Lilly Bartlett

A feel-good story that's as scrumptious as your favorite slice of cake! Emma's new cafe will be perfect, with its gorgeous strings of vintage bunting, mouth-wateringly gooey cakes, comforting pots of tea and quirky customers who think of each other as friends. It's a long road to get there, but as her business fills with freelancing hipsters, stroppy teens, new mums and old neighborhood residents, Emma realizes that they're not the only ones getting a second chance. She is too. But when someone commits bloomicide on their window boxes, their milk starts disappearing and their cake orders are mysteriously cancelled, it becomes clear that someone is determined to close them down. Will the cafe be their second chance after all? A deliciously laugh-out-loud story about friendship, second chances and surviving parenthood.