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Can you really make a living from indulging in your dreams?
TV Producer Stella Weston is over worked, overweight and under fire. Having battled uphill for years to balance her career with her family life, she is repaid by being put out to pasture on a religious gardening programme – complete with a nervous vicar, his nymphomaniac wife, and 22 stone Britney wannabe gardener, Gerald.
In the past, comfort has always been found at the bottom of her mixing bowl, but when even the most delicious lemon sponge with zesty frosting cannot save the day, Stella decides enough is enough.
However, finding the courage to quit is sometimes the easy part. Can you really turn a passion into a profession? Does more time at home actually give you a happier family life? Are men truly from Mars or another universe altogether?
Stella has to roll up her sleeves and find out – when the going gets tough, the tough get baking....
Oh wow! Such a sweet, fluffy and innocent cover hiding a fabulous grown-up story.
Stella loses her career as a TV producer and she sees this as a blessing in disguise as she can now concentrate on her family - her husband, Tom and daughter, Grace. She can make a fresh start with a new career and also spend time being a good wife and mother.
Stella decides to turn her passion for baking into a business, but life deals her some bitter blows so it is not all fairy cakes and happy days.
She has a supportive group of friends to help her through the tough times.
There is an unusual celebration, to look out for, which brings the story to a close.
I must say I did not care for Stella when I started reading the story. She was a career woman, who was not getting the balance of work and family right. The family losing out.
By the end of the novel I could identify with how Stella handled what life threw at her and I liked the new Stella.
This novel explores how a person can change to survive the uncontrollable changes forced upon them and not only survive but grow with the changes.
4.5 out of 5 for me!
I won a copy of this novel.
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