Rather wondered where this would go following the happy ending of the first book, but that's all overturned in the first chapter, and things go wrong on all fronts. But this is a happy story on the whole, with familiar characters (including the pet puffin) and some new ones. Challenges arise and are overcome. There is baking,there are parties,there are misunderstandings and downright nasty people, but even they mostly come good in time. It all comes right in the end : of course it does. A happy easy read.