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Dutton
August 2010
On Sale: August 5, 2010
Featuring: Rose Ellen "Zell" Roy
304 pages
ISBN: 0525951822
EAN: 9780525951827
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
Itβs been over a year since Nick died tragically during a post-Katrina relief mission in New Orleans. Long enough, according to the grief pamphlets, to have begun moving on with her life. But Zell is still unable to enter her attic, which is full of Nick memories. She hasnβt even turned on her oven because cooking was Nickβs chore. That is, until she decides to enter celebrity chef Polly Pinchβs first annual Desserts that Warm the Soul baking contest, hoping to win the $20,000 grand prize to donate to Katrina survivors in Nickβs honor. Meanwhile, in the adjacent apartment of Zellβs two-family house, nine-year-old Ingrid Knox is learning to cope with the loneliness of growing up without a mother. With an imagination as big as her heart, Ingrid treasures her doting father but begins to plot how she will meet her mother, whom she fiercely believes is Polly Pinch. When an embarrassing baking mishap brings Zell and Ingrid together, they form an unlikely friendship that will alter both of their lives forever. Together, and with the help of a lively and loveable cast of friends and family, they embark on winning the Desserts that Warm the Soul contest β and learn that through the many sorrows and joys of life, with a little bit of flour and a pinch of love, anything is possible.
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