What a wonderful read! A great cast of fairly diverse characters, a small village setting and our leads nursing broken hearts and hiding secrets. I loved the characters in this story, the themes of community and belonging were so well brought to life and some funny laugh out loud moments. I'd happily live in Station Cottages for a while!

Sue’s books are like warm hugs and are filled with friendship, community and the most delightful characters. The Slow Cooler Supper Club is no exception. Set at Station Cottages, a group of cosy, stone cottages that used to be part of the villages railway station. Heath presents an idyllic setting, complete with community allotment and introduces us to the residents. I was ready to move in by the time the novel finished!

Marie is grieving her husband Tom death. She has isolated herself from the world and put his last gift, a slow cooker away in a shelf. When neighbour Eva comes around looking for help with a broken oven, she offers to cook a meal and gets the slow cooker down. Before she knows it, the rest of the cottages join in and they start the tradition of the Thursday night slow cooker club is born and Marie is ready to face the world again.

Erin has been backpacking around the world and an issue with her passport has meant she’s stuck in the UK with nowhere to live. Her aunt Sue arranges for her house sit her friend Marie’s cottage in the country, on the proviso that she continues to host a weekly slow cooker club dinner. Erin arrives with itchy feet and many misconceptions of the cottage and village and plans for her next adventure. She then meets Danny, a heartbroken architect who has temporarily come to the cottages for a fresh start, Eva, a feisty eighty year old, John a grieving widow and handyman and Philomena who came to look after her mother with dementia. Surprised to find she’s not cooking for a bunch of old ladies Erin begins to join in with their community and cooking group and eventually finds home. I loved how food was intertwined throughout from the allotment being a place to grow ingredients for their meals and each of the characters cooking a meal that meant a lot to them and their loved ones. A beautiful story of starting over, the importance of little things and finding happiness in living. For fans of Sophie Green and Rachel Linden.

A lovely and gentle read about a group of people that get together once a week and eat together. They support each other through thick and thin. I really enjoyed this book very much. My thanks to netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book in return for an honest review.

I own a copy of The Secret Ingredient but haven't read it yet, but I really enjoyed The Storytellers, so I had high hopes for this.

I found this really difficult to review because the feeling of it, the meaning behind it all, it's something that you need to discover for yourself rather than read someone else's view on.

I liked the range of ages in it. We've got younger people, middle aged, and older. What I particularly liked is how they're all given equal billing. The old characters are not there to tick a box and the young ones are not there to prop up the old. They've all got their lives, their secrets, their desires, and there isn't a dud one amongst them.

This is my second of her books and she has this effortless way of writing where she doesn't shy away from difficult topics, but she imbues it with hope and love and joy, to make it a very real but uplifting story.

Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of focus on food and the comfort of food and how it can bring people together.

I read it in September at the tail end of the absurd heatwaves we were having and it was great. But I imagine it'll be an even cosier read in the colder months, all the promises of stews and whatnot. I may even reread it come the winter - and I rarely reread books.

It's so moving but not overly emotional. It's so warming and cosy and joyful and uplifting. Full of love and family and friendships - new and old - of communities, of beginnings and endings, or finding yourself, of travelling, of sticking around. It's got so much heart and I loved it. This is my favourite of hers so far and I just need to get round to reading the other one.

I'll definitely be recommending this to my nearest and dearest.

This is a fantastic reminder that sometimes the unexpected becomes the thing that changes us the most!

I enjoyed this engaging story about community and friendship and loved the reminder that if we put ourselves out there (do something a little different despite fear/hesitation), the universe will respond. We all have the power to change our route and destination. The choice is ours ~ daily. Even if we don’t own a slow cooker.

I was gifted this copy and was under no obligation to provide a review.