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A Half Baked Idea
- Narrated by: Olivia Potts
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Professionals & Academics
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Summary
Broought to you by Penguin.
At the moment her mother died, Olivia Potts was baking a cake. She was trying to impress the man who would later become her husband. Meanwhile, 275 miles away, her mother was dying.
In the grief-stricken months that followed, Olivia came home from her job as a criminal barrister miserable and tired, and baked soda bread, pizza, and chocolate banana cake.
Even when it went badly (which was often), cooking brought her comfort. So she concocted a plan: she would begin a newer, happier life, filled with fewer magistrates and more macarons.
She left the bar for Le Cordon Bleu, plunging headfirst into the eccentric world of patisserie. Interspersed with recipes ranging from passionfruit pavlova to her mother's shepherd's pie, this is a heartbreaking, hilarious, life-affirming memoir about dealing with grief, falling in love and learning how to bake a really, really good cake.
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- Kindle Customer
- 15-02-20
What Can I Say. It's Wonderful!
one of the most enjoyable audio books I have ever listened to. Olivia Potts story is sad, funny, heartwarming and wonderful. I will definitely listen to it again, and try some of her scrummy recipes and buy the book to read. Amazing woman, clever writer, fab story.
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- Bike fan
- 30-08-19
I Adored This Book
I absolutely adored this book. Just so so good. great book and wonderfully read. I am recommending this to all my friends and family.
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- Colin McIntosh
- 16-08-19
Surprisingly Intriguing & Moving
I bought this on a whim and got completely caught up in this story of loss and baking and coping. It’s funny, tender, moving and real. Highly recommended
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- Lefre de Burgh
- 09-10-20
Fabulous. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Beautifully written. Warm, smart, touching and funny, Olivia Potts does a fabulous job of telling this very personal story of transformation, grief and personal growth. Gripping. Couldn't put it down.
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- Lucy Hos
- 13-08-19
Moving, funny and delicious
A beautiful memoir that consistently brought tears to my eyes (much to the bemusement of commuters I passed on my walk home) as well as laughter at her honest and brutal self-awareness. Moving, funny and rather mouth-watering all rolled into one book.
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- Patricia p.
- 16-08-19
Disappointed
Too many recipes probably just read from a cookery book . The author was very self centred in the grieve for her mother. No real story line.
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- Elizabeth
- 31-07-20
The perfect pandemic listen
As someone who loves The Great British Bake-Off, BBC TV series, and psychology, I found this book very satisfying. Potts write with warmth, self-deprecating humor, and sincerity about losing her mother, switching careers, and falling in love. Her expert reading of the audiobook displays the skills she learned during her many childhood speech competitions. Highly recommended!