Hetty and Dan were childhood sweethearts, now happily married with a daughter Poppy and owners of a sheep farm life is busy but good. Until one of Hettys pies gets entered into a competition. Realising that this could be the beginning of a new adventure Hetty has to do some soul searching about what she wants from life. Will she stay dedicated farmers wife or will she compromise and start living her dream.

This story was beautifully told and the main character Hetty was charming and easy to like. With some twists along the way it keeps you intrigues from start to finish.

Hetty's Farmhouse Bakery was the first novel I have read by Cathy Bramley and I'm sure it won't be the last. I would recommend this to anybody who likes a light entertaining read.

Have read a few of Cathy Bramley's books and always find them enjoyable, easy reads. I love any books which feature some sort of baking theme intertwined with a good emotional, uplifting story. Hetty's Farmhouse Bakery ticks all these boxes. Would be an ideal holiday read.

I enjoyed reading this book by Cathy Bramley, it was an easy read on a snowy day. It made you feel good and all the descriptions of food and the special pies made you slightly envious that you can’t bake Leicester that.
A story about life, love and families and how they come in all shapes and sizes.

A charming feel good read which this author is known for. The story is centred in the farming community of Cumbria and evokes the trials and tribulations of farming life in a hill farm. There is warmth and a sense of togetherness and how, despite all, friendship and love overcomes all sorts of obstacles but also that people need to stand up and be true to themselves. There is also that secrets long kept are best shared as the longer they are kept the implications are more devastating although, maybe after, being kept the people involved are stronger to deal with them.. Easy and light to read with a light sense of humour and although the reader can probably work out the end it does not detract overall.

A nice easy read but with a story that is heart breaking at times.

Hetty is a farmers wife with a 12 year old daughter , helping with everything on the farm and baking pies for charity and her sister in law's farm shop her life revolves around her family. When at a school parents evening her daughter announces to the teacher the person she most looks up to is her Aunt, Hetty is shocked and starts to reassess her life. She enters a pie competition and after winning and being put forward to a national competition she knows she wants to start her own pie making business.
Unfortunately her husband Dan is resistant to this idea, worried that Hetty wouldn't be able to help on the farm as much, I found this so condescending and hurtful for Hetty, especially as a great secret is revealed adding drama and angst to this story causing Hetty to question everything about her marriage and friends.
An enjoyable entertaining story with excellent storylines, my only niggle is that I found Hetty just a little bit of a doormat and although all came good in the end I still felt she had been treated badly.

Hetty Greengrass married her childhood sweetheart, Dan, and moved onto his family farm straight from school. She’s been busy helping him and bringing up her daughter Poppy but is starting to feel as if she hasn’t achieved anything for herself. Her sister-in-law encourages her to develop her pie making skills but making a living from your hobby isn’t as easy as she thinks. Charming, atmospheric but not twee, Cathy Bramley transports us into the heart of Cumbria where love is doled out in slices of pie.

This isn't the first book by Cathy Bramley I have read and it certainly won't be the last. I love her style of writing, it is so descriptive and her characters come alive. Although I couldn't stop reading it I didn't want it to end.

The main characters are Hetty and Dan who run Sunnybank Farm. and their daughter Poppy. They both had other ambitions when they left school, Hetty wanted to study for a Maths degree and Dan's ambition was to become a vet but life is never straight forward. While Dan runs a successful sheep farm like his father before him, Hetty is kept busy with the farm, her daughter, her charity work and baking her wonderful pies. Hetty's name is put forward for a competition to find the best produce in the region and although Hetty has ambitions to make her daughter proud life becomes complicated.

This is a story of family values, friends, secrets and choices. We meet Hetty and Dan's school friends, their families and even Hetty's beloved dog Rusty. A wonderful book that takes you through so many emotions along the way.

I adore Cathy’s books and this one didn’t disappoint! Read in one sitting couldn’t put it down! Wonderful to read and had lots of tears and laughter. Fabulous

Thanks to NetGalley and Random House for a copy of this delightful book. This book is written in such a way as to embrace the reader who will laugh and cry as it progresses. A lovely tale of family life and how it is affected by a range of events and secrets being uncovered. For me, the icing on the cake was the references to all the animals which is always an attraction. A book well worth reading.

I have always loved Cathy's books and couldn't wait to read this at all and she defiantly didn't let me down at all it is an excellent book worth far more than the five stars I had to give it. It's full of surprises, romance families and of course lovely pies. It has such amazing characters with excellent story lines and has you hooked from the first page to the last. It's such a delight to read and full of fun and joy.
Hetty has always put her husband and daughter first before her own. She helps Dan run the farm and has done for years. Her talent is baking cakes and they are simply Devine everyone says. She's made them for a long time but only for charity work but someone suggests she makes them for a competition to find Cumbrias finest food and she enters and wins. She thinks she can start doing something for her and get something done for herself. Problem is her husband isn't keen and someone rings to say she's through to a bigger competition with her pies and she can go to London to see if she wins. She has to decide what is best for the family and hard when Dan doesn't want her to go so does she and can she won and set her own business up or not. Also after a tragic accidents secrets come out and can she forgive and forget and move forward or is that just to much can she be happy or not.
So many amazing twists and turns and perfect to curl up and read this book. Loved it so so much.

I did enjoy this, but not as much as some of Cathy Bramley's previous books.
The story centres around Hetty, farmers wife. She wants more from life, but when secrets from the past emerge she has to decide what is really important to her.