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How to Bake a Perfect Life - Barbara O'Neal
How to Bake a Perfect Life
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In a novel as warm and embracing as a family kitchen, Barbara O’Neal explores the poignant, sometimes complex relationships between mothers and daughters—and the healing magic of homemade bread.   Professional baker Ramona Gallagher is a master of an art that has sustained her through the most... show more
In a novel as warm and embracing as a family kitchen, Barbara O’Neal explores the poignant, sometimes complex relationships between mothers and daughters—and the healing magic of homemade bread.   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 bakery threatens to crumble around her. Literally. She’s one water-heater disaster away from losing her grandmother’s rambling Victorian and everything she’s worked so hard to build. When Ramona’s soldier son-in-law is wounded in Afghanistan, her daughter, Sophia, races overseas to be at his side, leaving Ramona as the only suitable guardian for Sophia’s thirteen-year-old stepdaughter, Katie. Heartbroken, Katie feels that she’s being dumped again—this time on the doorstep of a woman out of practice with mothering. Ramona relies upon a special set of tools—patience, persistence, and the reliability of a good recipe—when rebellious Katie arrives. And as she relives her own history of difficult choices, Ramona shares her love of baking with the troubled girl. Slowly, Katie begins to find self-acceptance and a place to call home. And when a man from her past returns to offer a second chance at love, Ramona discovers that even the best recipe tastes better when you add time, care, and a few secret ingredients of your own.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780553386776 (0553386778)
ASIN: 553386778
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
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jbarrett5 book reviews, etc
jbarrett5 book reviews, etc rated it
4.0 How to Bake a Perfect Life
How to Bake a Perfect Life by Barbara O'NeilLove how this story is about a family but the chapters are told with the recipe of the family dough from hundreds of years ago intertwined.She is a master in the bakery but she's on hard time and about to lose the house. Ramona.A good recipe will help get ...
Literary Marie's Precision Reviews
Literary Marie's Precision Reviews rated it
2.0 How to Bake a Perfect Life
Ramona was born into a line of restaurant owners and bread bakers. After she was skipped over for a promotion, she broke away from the family and started her own bakery. Everything was fine until one phone call changed her life. Ramona's pregnant daughter, Sofia, received news that her soldier husba...
A Book and A Review #2
A Book and A Review #2 rated it
3.0
Generally a cute story...sort of your typical chick-lit book. I bumped it up to 3 stars for the recipes alone..My gosh, the recipes look so fantastic. I am loving the fact that authors are starting to do recipes with their books..as someone who loves to cook, it is just something that makes them sta...
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debnance rated it
3.0 How to Bake a Perfect Life
No mistaking Ramona Gallagher’ life for that of June Cleaver. Ramona got pregnant at fifteen, raised her daughter on her own, became estranged from her family over a business tiff....Okay, you get the picture. Now Ramona is all grownup and soon to be a grandmother herself, but the problems go on and...
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