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    The Tea House on Mulberry Street
    The Tea House on Mulberry Street
    The Tea House on Mulberry Street
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Tea House on Mulberry Street

    Written by Sharon Owens

    Narrated by Caroline Winterson

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Muldoon’s Tea Rooms, beloved for the cozy atmosphere and luscious desserts, has started looking a bit outdated-and the same could be said about the proprietors, Penny and Daniel Stanley.


    After seventeen years, their marriage has started to fade and wear a little thin, even as their old shop bustles with the energy of the customers who seek refuge from their particular dilemmas: Housewife Sadie Smith comes to escape her diet and her husband’s stick-thin mistress. Struggling artist Brenda Brown sits and pens love letters to the actor Nicolas Cage. And Clare Fitzgerald returns after twenty years abroad to search for a long-lost someone.


    Behind the cherry cheesecakes, vanilla ice creams, and chocolate cappuccinos are the stirrings of a revolution that will define lives, heal troubled hearts, and rock the very foundation of the humble teahouse. And through it all, Penny and Daniel manage to discover what truly matters in life and love. Rich with wit, bursting with charm, The Tea House On Mulberry Street is a vibrant debut of tenderness, imagination-and delicious pastries.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateApr 3, 2024
    ISBN9781593163273
    The Tea House on Mulberry Street

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    • 3/5
      This is a cute story with wacky characters set in Belfast. Peopled with a collection of sweet oddballs, it is a light, endearing account of their lives. What I liked most was that one of the characters lived on Eglantine Avenue, near the Botanic Gardens, a street where I used to live back in the sixties, which created a nostalgic moment. My version was an audiobook. Caroline Winterson's dreadful reading was excruciating and reduced my rating significantly.
    • 4/5
      My first thought on reading this was, "what a delightful little story." While it starts out a bit doom and gloom with several failing relationships, it somehow brings humor into the gloom and ends with the happiest of endings.The main couple, Penny and Daniel Stanley, are the owners of the Tea house. Daniel is a workaholic and more concerned with his penny-pinching than anything else. Penny is disappointed in the relationship and goes on to have an affair due to Daniel's cold ignorance of her feelings.Another couple, Sadie and Arnold are also having trouble with their relationships. Sadie on a continuous stream of diets finds out about his affair and after doing so, plots the most delicious of revenge that you can't help smiling in glee with how it turns out.Rose, Aurora, and Henry make up another lovers circle. Aurora is more concerned with her book club, and the addition to her house (done by Arnold) rather than her relationship with Henry. He prefers to pitter in his garden all day long that is eventually destroyed by the addition. While at the tea house he meets Rose, a recent divorcee who owns a flower shop and loves gardening as much as him. As Aurora draws further into her club and a new man, Henry and Rose plant something beautiful.In addition to these stories there are also two side stories. One is of Clare, who used to live in Belfast where the teahouse is located and is in search of a long lost love. The other is Brenda, a failing artist who is in love with Nicholas Cage.Towards the end of the novel, a fire somehow fixes many things for the characters and everyone receives a happy ending. A bit mushy for some, but sometimes a little lightheartedness is needed in a read.
    • 3/5
      There was something of a charm about this book,and it was devoured quickly.Essentially set in Northern Ireland and covers the lives,loves and tribulations of some of those who frequent a tea shop. Some of the characters were horried, and others remarkably sweet - the story of Clare and Peter! There was a familiarity with this storyline - it reminded me of The Hat Shop on the Corner by Marita Conlon-McKenna, albeit,that was set in Southern Ireland.
    • 4/5
      I was in need of some light Sunday-afternoon reading, and this fit the bill perfectly. It's nothing special plot-wise, but good for a cozy afternoon, where you just want to disappear into a book for a couple of hours with no special effort needed.

      In style, the book is very similar to a lot of Maeve Binchy's work, although Sharon Owen doesn't possess quite the same charm and freshness as is so typical for Binchy's books. Some of the plot-lines had a bit too much 'tell' and a bit too little 'show', and I therefore felt less sympathetic to those characters than some of the others.

      It's obviously not meant as great literature, but as a feel-good novel to while a couple of hours away.
    • 3/5
      Set in Belfast, an ensemble piece populated with quite a few characters, the narrative here revolves around the regulars at the slightly shabby Muldoon's Tea House, which serves good food cheaply. Each of the characters is quickly and sharply drawn: Penny's family has owned the tea house for years and she longs for a bit of beauty and a child. Her husband Daniel is too parsimonious to indulge her and seems more wedded to the tea house than to Penny. There are two spinsters who pass judgment on the loose morals of the day while conscientiously collecting for charity. Brenda is a starving artist who writes almost daily to actor Nicolas Cage, sharing her dreams, triumphs and set-backs with him as his biggest fan. Henry is independently wealthy and owns a bookstore where he can hole himself away from his increasingly self-centered and eccentric wife with her Bronte Bunch. Clare is a New Yorker who once lived beside the tea house and stops in chasing a long cherished desire, the boy with whom she fell in love so many years ago.With such a large cast of characters (and the above are only the principles), the book feels very episodic as Owens tells their tales in turn chapter by chapter. The characters seem to be fairly stock and the resolutions of their desires are for the most part quite predictable. It was a tad displeasing that almost without fail these people all reached and grasped for their own happiness without reference to the other people in their lives to whom they owed consideration. The affairs and unconcerned immorality was somewhat over the top. Do all married people who are having trouble have affairs? According to this book, the answer must be yes. And while the heart-warming ending that readers expect for the principle characters does come about, the previous bits left enough of a bad taste in my mouth that it didn't redeem the book. I understand there are more books in the series but I'm not eager to make the acquaintance of these folks again and the writing was not sublime enough to tempt me either.
    • 3/5
      Overall, it was pleasant and little bit entertaining, but nothing to write home about. There really isn't much here beyond the basic linear narratives of approximately a dozen people whose common factor is the eponymous tea house (re. the title.)The writing style feels, at best, mediocre and, at worst, artless and unimaginative. It fails to be emotionally provocative and as a result, the endings of the various story lines are unsatisfactory. Caroline Winterson's voice is a bit "hard" and overly careful and, her voice for Nicolas Cage is laughable; but perhaps her accent is appropriate for the Belfast region [I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.:] There's a recipe for Cherry Cheesecake at the end of the narrative (Mmmm...)
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this story about the relationships of the owners and patrons of a little tea shop. Several estranged or rocky marriages which take different paths, a struggling artist who has written hundreds of letters to Nicholas Cage but never sent any, proud sisters who have some secrets to discover about their heritage. The only real link is that they are all regulars at the little tea shop on Mulberry Street. Sweet and satisfying.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely delightfull!!!!No hidden meanings, very light, enjoyable read. This was a great read. I fell in love with all (ok, almost all) the characters. They were easy to relate to. It wasn't very predictable either. I couldn't wait to find out what happened next. This would be a wonderful vacation read!SPOILER!!!!(sort of)Sadie is my new hero & the next time I run into that problem & will take a page from her book. The best I ever did was getting him for $200 & humiliating him to her & his work.
    • 3/5
      Daniel and Penny Stanley own and live above Muldoon's Tea Rooms in Belfast, Ireland. Their lives and the regulars of Muldoon's are revealed - both the good and the bad.My first attempt at listening to this book didn't make it past the first CD. I thought I'd give it another try and I was successful, but was surprised as to much of the content. My interest in finding out the resolutions to all the characters' dilemmas became the focus of getting through the book. It wasn't the characters themselves that held my attention. Quirky characters are usually intriguing to me, but many of these people had no morals. That shut down my ability to get emotionally involved with them. I gave it a 3/5 because I liked how Owens weaved all the characters together without being blatant, otherwise it would have been in the 2's. (3/5)Originally posted on: Thoughts of Joy
    • 4/5
      A sweet tale of life and love pivoted around Penny Stanley and Daniel Stanley's Tea House on Mulberry Street, Muldoon's Tea Rooms. Their marriage is starting to show some cracks as are some other marriages of some of their regulars. I liked several of the characters, enjoying their adventures. However the book occasionally felt a bit scattered, though this was part of it's charm. I enjoyed how some of the characters got their way out of their situations and through to a happier life.
    • 3/5
      Based around Muldoon's, a small cafe owned and run by Penny and Daniel, the lives of several different people are exlored, as well as their connections to each other. There's Brenda Brown, the artist, and Rose the florist, and Sadie the wife of a sleazy conversatory salesman, as well as several others that are all incorporated into the daily life of this small corner of Belfast. I listened to this on a long car trip, so in a way I was a bit of a captive audience, which was a good thing. It was a slow start to the story, and I had to give it time to set up the situations of several different groups of people before I really began to enjoy how the story was moving along. Generally everything comes out all right in the end for most of the characters, and the listener/reader is able to guess this part of the way through, although exactly how they get there is the fun part for the listener. The story does go off on tangents in a few places which I found less enjoyable as I wanted to get on with some of the main threads I was more interested in. Caroline Winterson, who does the reading, is an excellent and capable artist. She has a very pleasnat voice and does the different voices well, and (to my Northeast American ears) has an easily understandable and clear Irish accent.There's also a recipe for cheesecake at the end of the story. I didn't try to make it, but it sounds delicious.
    • 2/5
      after 6 weeks of getting thru this book, I gave up.It is not bad,it is not a page turner,but just not good enough to spend more time on.too many good books to read.
    • 5/5
      very good story, hard to put down, follows multiple characters
    • 3/5
      Exactly what it presents to be - a cozy story that gives every member of the community a happy ending. I read it last night when I was having one of my 'can't sleep for no good reason' nights and it was nice and easy for that.