Sunday 30 August 2015

The Dish By Stella Newman


This story fills you with wonderful food ideas to cook but leaves you wanting more of this delightful story dish…

In this book we meet Laura Parker who comes with a bag full of trust issues, leaving her home in Manchester after finding out her husband was cheating on her with her best friend!!!!! She moved to London as far as possible from them and started a new life. Once in London she finds somewhere to stay and is leaving of her savings but needs to get work soon and contacts one of her mother dear work friend Roger at The Voice magazine who she admired for most of her life and gave her connection to her mother. Roger has no writing jobs to give her but he has position has his sectary which Laura snaps up also a position of food critic the “Dish” on the side. Part of the side job was to cover openings of new restaurant’s and this night she takes Roger along for company, tonight opening was for the next best thing to come to London, but landed being the worst she had the miss fortune to visit which turned in food poising for her and Roger.

  Laura life is stable she even stayed to date someone till on fateful morning on her date when she finds out that her man is a cereal dater and was coming straight to her from his date the night before so he was off her Christmas card list !!!! So as she walking away from the date from hell, Laura now thinking can she make it to her favourite café for a beacon roll she might just make it as she goes to order she finds that the last one has to been sold to the man sitting behind her so she goes and orders the next best thing a custard doughnut another speciality of the café the order is placed and coffee she takes a seat. Laura is running over the disaster of her date when her food arrives takes one bite and release that’s is jam that’s the icing on the cafe she heads over to the young boy who took the order and he explains that the man who had the beacon roll also order the custard doughnut and the orders went in  but only one doughnut was left , Laura was at boiling point and she approaches the man explaining that he took the last beacon roll so she should have the last custard doughnut he would not move on this so she offers Adam five pounds for half the doughnut and as they sit and eats they half’s the sparks begin to fly. They land up spending the afternoon chatting, Laura  surprise that she already likes spending time with Adam this banker guy totally opposite to her chef of an ex-husband and after they time together they did not exchange numbers she thought that she would never see her again???? She was wrong Adam arrange a breakfast date!!!

On their second date  Laura finds they have more in common that she thinks and also puts together that Adam is the chef from her worse nightmare  review, they spend more time together and Laura is really started to like this guy but she is finding really hard to tell him that’s she is the writer for the Dish and hope and pray that Adam was not working that night she even arranges to go back for a second review and the food is amazing , but the wrong review get published and Adam doesn’t take the news well. Laura finally found the one that she could open up her heart and soul too but is it too late for them to find true love, That’s where you have to buy the book and find out for yourself  I promise you won’t be disappointed and will leave you wanting more .

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