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How to Bake a Perfect Life

How to Bake a Perfect Life

Women's FictionContemporary Romance
Published
2011
Language
English

Synopsis

Ramona Gallagher has weathered a great deal — becoming a single mother at fifteen, and an ongoing family feud that still shadows her business. She runs a bread bakery out of the Colorado Springs Victorian house she inherited, but a slow economy and a run of small mishaps now threaten both the bakery and the home.

When her daughter Sofia gets word that her soldier husband has been badly injured overseas, Sofia flies to Germany to be at his side, leaving Ramona to look after her teenage stepdaughter, Katie. What follows is a story about baking, about the long echo of teenage motherhood, and about two generations of women learning to hold a family together.

Barbara O'Neal — who has also published as Barbara Samuel — writes food-centred women's fiction; How to Bake a Perfect Life is one of her best-known novels.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

HeartwarmingHopefulEmotionalReflective
Family SagaFound Family

Genres

Women's Fiction Contemporary Romance Contemporary Literature Cookbooks & Food

About the author

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Barbara Samuel

Barbara Samuel (also known as Barbara O’Neal) is the bestselling author of more than 40 books. In 2012, she was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall Of Fame, and she has won seven RITA awards. Her books have been published in more than a dozen countries, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Brazil, and Australia/New Zealand. One of her recent women’s fiction titles, The Lost Recipe for Happiness (written as Barbara O’Neal) went back to print eight times, and her book How to Bake a Perfec...

Characters

Ramona GallagherProtagonist

Owner of a Colorado Springs bread bakery; a single mother at fifteen.

SofiaSupporting

Ramona's daughter, who flies to Germany when her soldier husband is wounded.

KatieSupporting

Sofia's teenage stepdaughter, left in Ramona's care.

All characters in How to Bake a Perfect Life

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