The Girl on a Baker's Bike

by Ted Bun

Marie is a young student at a French University in a boring ordinary town in Eastern France. To escape, she is studying Tourism except she is rather forgetful.
She missed the deadline for an assignment. Now she is scrabbling to find a placement for her summer vacation project.
Fortunately, for her an aunt has connections. Marie has reason to be grateful ... but there is a catch.

133 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 1, 2025

About the author

I was born in London in 1956 and lived most of my life in the south of England.

I ran a naturist resort in Portugal for three fun-filled summers. Mrs Bun decided this was what we wanted to do. We spent two years searching before we found L’Olivette, our little paradise in the South of France.

Teachers always tell you to write about things you know about. So, that is what I did!

During the long evenings of the quiet season, a series of novellas and short stories started to take shape, one letter at a time

The first book in the Rags to Riches series, in which our central characters first meet and romance starts, “The Uncovered Policeman” was published on Valentine’s Day 2016.

Since then, I have got a little carried away!

Reviews

[Glenn Hickie · Rating 5 out of 5]

The bike lives on

I was imagining so many story lines involving the main characters an that includes the bike as well. The last few pages of this great story were a wonderful surprise that I won’t even offer a clue about. Future readers will thank me for that. Ted Bun fans MUST BUY this book!

[Baz TB · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ted Bun reprises with Gary's bike passing on to Marie, who after finding herself jobless before her uni holidays, lands a summer position at ATNAT. What transpires is a heart warming summer story in which Marie begins to find herself meeting expectations she was not aware she could, and while Christian and Marcel reappear, from Gary's story, this tale is very much that of girl from the east of France growing and finding depths she simply did not know she had.

As the tale progresses, plot twists are unearthed, about just how Marie came to be invited to work here, and significances about how she deals with many unexpected events.

A coming of age tale that had me gripped, regarding a character for whom I felt a great deal of compassion and admiration, written with warmth and gentle humour.

Recommend.