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A luminous, tender-hearted debut novel about a young widow, a nine-year-old girl, and a baking contest that will change their lives. Rose-Ellen “Zell” Carmichael Roy wears her late husband Nick’s camouflage apron even outside the kitchen. Over a year has passed since Nick died during a post-Katrina relief mission, and Zell struggles to move on, unable to enter her attic filled with memories or turn on her oven, as cooking was Nick’s chore. However, she decides to enter celebrity chef Polly Pinch’s first annual Desserts that Warm the Soul baking contest, aiming to win the $20,000 grand prize to donate to Katrina survivors in Nick’s honor. In the adjacent apartment, nine-year-old Ingrid Knox copes with the absence of her mother. With a vivid imagination, she believes her mother is Polly Pinch and treasures her doting father. An embarrassing baking mishap brings Zell and Ingrid together, forging an unlikely friendship that changes their lives. Together, with the support of a lively cast of friends and family, they embark on a journey to win the contest, discovering that through life’s sorrows and joys, a little flour and love can make anything possible.
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Weiß der Himmel von dir, Jessica Schwarz, Alicia Bessette, Andreas Pietschmann
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- Released
- 2010
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- Subtitle
- gekürzte Lesung
- Language
- German
- Publisher
- Edel: Kultur [Vertrieb]
- Released
- 2010
- ISBN10
- 3867176132
- ISBN13
- 9783867176132
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Love, Women, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Contemporary Romance, Food, Death, Life, Baking, Loss, Mourning, New Orleans, Greyhound
- Original title
- Simply from scratch
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- A luminous, tender-hearted debut novel about a young widow, a nine-year-old girl, and a baking contest that will change their lives. Rose-Ellen “Zell” Carmichael Roy wears her late husband Nick’s camouflage apron even outside the kitchen. Over a year has passed since Nick died during a post-Katrina relief mission, and Zell struggles to move on, unable to enter her attic filled with memories or turn on her oven, as cooking was Nick’s chore. However, she decides to enter celebrity chef Polly Pinch’s first annual Desserts that Warm the Soul baking contest, aiming to win the $20,000 grand prize to donate to Katrina survivors in Nick’s honor. In the adjacent apartment, nine-year-old Ingrid Knox copes with the absence of her mother. With a vivid imagination, she believes her mother is Polly Pinch and treasures her doting father. An embarrassing baking mishap brings Zell and Ingrid together, forging an unlikely friendship that changes their lives. Together, with the support of a lively cast of friends and family, they embark on a journey to win the contest, discovering that through life’s sorrows and joys, a little flour and love can make anything possible.