title: Ice Cream in Winter
author: Thompson, Grace
description: Romance and heartache abound as a local ice cream shop struggles to stay afloat    Christmas, 1940.  As the festive season approaches in a small Welsh village, two friends, Patricia and Vanessa, fall for the same man. Vanessa will stop at nothing to win his affections, but ultimately it is Patricia who finds love.  Yet when tragedy strikes, it is Patricia who has to piece her life back together. Throwing herself into revitalising a traditional gelato business, she finds comfort from an unexpected source. Soon local gossip makes her worry if her new suitor can be trusted is he too good to be true?   An atmospheric and emotional saga,  Ice Cream in Winter  is steeped in period detail. Its author, the much-loved Grace Thompson (here under the pen name Kay Christopher), is one of the bestselling saga writers of recent years.