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Wedding Girl - Stacey Ballis (2016)

 

When pastry chef Sophie Bernstein is jilted at the altar in spectacular fashion (her fiance has eloped with someone else!), she is faced with more than just the embarrassment of being dumped. She is fifty grand in wedding debt and soon finds herself out of her job and her home. Deciding she needs a little time to regroup, Sophie moves in with her grandmother, Bubbles, and gets a part-time job at the neighbourhood bakery while she figures out her next step. She soon finds herself acting as an online wedding planner when a bakery customer likes the suggestions Sophie gives her for her wedding. When several new opportunities are revealed, both professionally and personally, Sophie must decide on the next chapter of her life. Stacey Ballis has created a genuine, likable, fallible character in Sophie – she's someone you want to be best friends with. The supporting characters are a hoot and help create a well-rounded story about things that happen in real life. What an absolute pleasure this book was to read. (LEK)

Rating 9/10
 
 

Stacey Ballis' latest foodie fiction, Wedding Girl, is being touted as You've Got Mail meets Julie & Julia. The summary says: "Top pastry chef Sophie Bernstein and her sommelier fiance were set to have Chicago's culinary wedding of the year ... until the groom eloped with someone else in a very public debacle, leaving Sophie splashed across the tabloids - fifty grand in debt on her dream wedding and one-hundred percent screwed on her dream life. The icing on the cake was when she lost her job and her home.
Laying low, Sophie moves in with her grandmother, Bubbles. That way, she can keep Bubbles and her sweater-wearing pug company and nurse her broken heart. But when Sophie gets a part-time job at the old-fashioned neighbourhood bakery, she finds herself up to her elbows in dough and reluctantly giving a wedding cake customer advice on everything from gift bags to guest accommodations. Before she knows it, she's an online wedding planner. It's not mousse and macarons, but it pays the bills.
But with the arrival of unexpected personal and professional twists, Sophie wonders if she's really moving forward - or starting over from scratch." Wedding Girl is out in May 2016.

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