by Good Book Fairy | Aug 26, 2013 | Fiction, Food, France, Motherhood, Mothers/Daughters, Year 2013 |
The Mouse-Proof Kitchen by Saira Shah – 352 pages Book Blurb: Anna is a planner. So when she discovers she’s pregnant, she prepares for a perfect new life in Provençe, France, with her perfect new baby-to-be. Anna’s partner, the easy-going Tobias, shouldn’t have...
by Good Book Fairy | Jun 14, 2013 | Fiction, Food, Mothers/Daughters, Year 2013 |
Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots by Jessica Soffer – 336 pages Book Blurb: This is a story about accepting the people we love—the people we have to love and the people we choose to love, the families we’re given and the families we make. It’s the story of two...
by Good Book Fairy | Mar 22, 2012 | Beach Read, Chick Lit / Women's Fiction, Fiction, Food, Year 2010
The School Of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister- 240 pages Book Blurb: The School of Essential Ingredients follows the lives of eight students who gather in Lillian’s Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that...
by Good Book Fairy | Mar 18, 2012 | Beach Read, Chick Lit / Women's Fiction, Favorites, Fiction, Food, Magical Realism / Dreams, Year 2008
Garden Spells by Sarah Allison Allen – 290 pages Book Blurb: For nearly a decade, 34-year-old Claire Waverley, at peace with her family inheritance, has lived in the house alone, embracing the spirit of the grandmother who raised her, ruing her mother’s...
by Good Book Fairy | Mar 18, 2012 | Favorites, Food, Germany, Historical Fiction, Holocaust, Judaic Themes or Characters, WW2, Year 2012
The Baker’s Daughter by Sarah McCoy – 304 pages Book Blurb: In 1945, Elsie Schmidt was a naïve teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she was for her first kiss. But in the waning days of the Nazi empire, with food scarce and fears of sedition...
by Good Book Fairy | Mar 7, 2012 | Chick Lit / Women's Fiction, Fiction, Food, Mothers/Daughters, Year 2011
How To Bake A Perfect Life by Barbara O’Neal – 368 pages Book Blurb: Professional baker Ramona Gallagher is a master of an art that has sustained her through the most turbulent times, including a baby at fifteen and an endless family feud. But now Ramona’s...