Comfort Food
Now in paperback from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Friday Night Knitting Club... Shortly before turning 50, TV cooking show personality Augusta "Gus" Simpson discovers that the network wants to boost her ratings by teaming her with a beautiful, young new co-host. But Gus isn't...
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Now in paperback from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Friday Night Knitting Club... Shortly before turning 50, TV cooking show personality Augusta "Gus" Simpson discovers that the network wants to boost her ratings by teaming her with a beautiful, young new co-host. But Gus isn't going without a fight-whether it's off-set with her two demanding daughters, on-camera with the ambitious new diva herself, or after-hours with Oliver, the new culinary producer who's raising Gus's temperature beyond the comfort zone. Now, in pursuit of higher ratings and culinary delights, Gus might be able to rejuvenate more than just her career.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399154652 (0399154655)
Publish date: May 6th 2008
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Cooking,
Foodie
My current trend seems to be self-involved middle-aged women. Still, this story was fine. Nothing amazing or memorable and not the the best written but still a pleasing story about a TV cooking show host, her friends and daughters, and the second life-changing event that alters the course of her fut...
Intelligent, well written story with positive message.
Although not as good as her first novel, this one does avoud the sophmore curse....I really enjoyed it.
"The author of The Friday Night Knitting Club returns, this time with a novel about cooking show host Augusta ""Gus"" Simpson, her family, and friends. Although you can read the first chapter online, I don't think the first chapter does the rest of the book justice - which was exactly what I thought...