A pitch-perfect blend of childlike innocence and Mark Twain-style fabulist humor.-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)


Pull up your knee socks and buckle your pinchy shoes, Celia is back! She's a precocious seven-year-old, hell bent on saving earthworms. And much to her Nan's chagrin, she's still causing havoc wherever she goes. To top it all off, her comic strip in the local paper is going like gangbusters.

But with all this, what keeps Celia up at night is how to get her Nan's house back-the one her should-have-been parents snookered her Nan out of. If she could do that, it wouldn't be so bad that she only has Captain Ahab to play with....


A Crack in the Teacup is the laugh-out-loud second book in the Happy Valley Chronicles Humorous Women fiction series. If you like delightfully quirky characters, Sixties nostalgia, and sharp, modern sensibility, then you'll love C.P. Hoff's outrageous adventure.

Buy A Crack in the Teacup and pull up a chair by the fireside today!