A01=Prue Leith
Author_Prue Leith
Bake Off
Carole Matthews
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Cathy Bramley
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Fern Britton
GBBO
Great British Bake Off
Hilary Boyd
Jenny Colgan
Jill Mansell
Joanna Trollope
Milly Johnson
Veronica Henry
Product details
- ISBN 9781849160131
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 05 Nov 2009
- Publisher: Quercus Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Three single women in their fifties meet when they join a choir. Lucy, recently widowed, is a cook and food journalist; Joanna, a successful business woman, never married; Rebecca is a divorced interior decorator. Each of the women is at a crossroads and they quickly form a bond. The trio decide to combine their talents to restore a crumbling pile in Cornwall and turn it into a cookery school and spa. The project brings its own conflicts, both professional and personal. The novel's themes touch on the sustaining power of female friendship and how a woman copes with mid life and onwards. Prue's narrative voice is warm, witty, wise, very accessible. Her characters are sympathetic and engaging: very different women but each with demons to face as she gets older and confronts a future without - perhaps - a man in it. Her knowledge of food and business adds detail and zest, enriching an already compelling tale.
As a cook, restaurateur, food writer and business woman, Prue Leith has played a key role in the revolution of Britain's eating habits since the 1960s. She is a judge on Channel 4's Great British Bake Off. She is the author of many cookery books as well as several novels and an autobiography, recently updated and reissued under the title Let Me Eat Cake. All Prue's fiction and her memoir are in print with Quercus. She is married to John Playfair and lives in Oxfordshre. Follow her on on Twitter @PrueLeith
