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The Art of Baking Blind: The gripping page-turner from the bestselling author of ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL, soon to be a major Netflix series
Sarah Vaughan
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Five amateur bakers compete in a baking competition and discover that the vision of perfect domesticity they aspire to may not be the whole truth. For book club readers everywhere whose tastes range from The Help, One Day and The Other Hand to Katie Fforde and Gill Hornby.
'Clever and compelling. I loved this!' Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Love, Nina
There are many reasons to bake: to feed; to create; to impress; to nourish; to define ourselves; and, sometimes, it has to be said, to perfect. But often we bake to fill a hunger that would be better filled by a simple gesture from a dear one. We bake to love and be loved.
In 1966, Kathleen Eaden, cookery writer and wife of a supermarket magnate, published The Art of Baking, her guide to nurturing a family by creating the most exquisite pastries, biscuits and cakes.
Now, five amateur bakers are competing to become the New Mrs Eaden. There's Jenny, facing an empty nest now her family has flown; Claire, who has sacrificed her dreams for her daughter; Mike, trying to parent his two kids after his wife's death; Vicki, who has dropped everything to be at home with her baby boy; and Karen, perfect Karen, who knows what it's like to have nothing and is determined her fa ade shouldn't slip.
As unlikely alliances are forged and secrets rise to the surface, making the choicest choux bun seems the least of the contestants' problems. For they will learn - as Mrs Eaden did before them - that while perfection is possible in the kitchen, it's very much harder in life.
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Praise for The Art of Baking Blind: The gripping page-turner from the bestselling author of ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL, soon to be a major Netflix series
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Warm, wise and inspiring, an utterly delicious novel - Polly Williams, bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy
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Clever and compelling. I loved this! - Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Love, Nina
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Heavenly... - Candis
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Delicious...friendship, rivalry and exposed secrets, gorgeously told - Elle
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan read English at Oxford and went on to become a journalist. After training at the Press Association, she spent eleven years at the Guardian as a news reporter and political correspondent before leaving to freelance and write fiction.
The Art of Baking Blind, published in the UK, US and seven languages, was her debut novel, and The Farm at the Edge of the World, a French bestseller, her second.
Anatomy of a Scandal, her first courtroom drama/political thriller, became an instant international bestseller and Sunday Times top five bestseller. Translated into 23 languages, it was also filmed for Netflix as a six-part mini-series, written by David E Kelley, and starring Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery and Rupert Friend.
Little Disasters was a Waterstones thriller of the month, a kindle bestseller, and is in the process of being adapted for TV. Her fifth novel, Reputation, has just been optioned by the team that developed Anatomy of a Scandal for TV.
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