The Bitter Sweet Life of Annie Jenkins

Set in the early twentieth century in the heart of the English Potteries, where the lines between upper-class owners and poor factory workers were set in stone, comes this saga of forbidden and unexpected love, obsession, loss, and a small sweet shop that saves one woman's life.



Raised in a loving, working-class, Methodist family, Annie Jenkins falls in love with Daniel, a man of wealth and position. Their secret marriage was, by both families' estimation, doomed for failure. But it wasn't their differences that brought ruin and heartache for Annie. It may have been losing so much after loving so deeply.



Amid the turmoil of her life, she finds sanctuary working where her mother used to work and where her parents first met-an old sweet shop. Annie brings the shop back to its former glory but can this magical place work its charm and heal the bitterness in her heart?