This is a fun but dramatic story that’ll certainly leave you with your mouth watering at the descriptions of some of the delectable dishes which permeate throughout the story. It is a story showing the impact of nurture on people and how developing a feeling of self worth is empowering, enabling people to make life changing decisions. It starts with Jax, who calls off her wedding via a text sent on the morning she was due to get married. This decision changes her life, her attitudes to herself and others, and gives her opportunities she’s never before realised she could take.

Jax and Caryl are sisters, brought up by their famous TV celebrity chef Mum who is so well known by only her first name - Majella and is something of a domineering control freak who really doesn’t know how to show love other than by cooking. Despite their Mum, Jax can’t even cook toast. Both sisters have a love/hate relationship with food. Jax loves to eat food produced by others and can’t cook whilst Caryl can cook but has a serious eating disorder. The story is somewhat light hearted but it has serious issues and more substance than many in this genre. Instead of getting married and going on honeymoon, Jax is sent on a cookery course and so the delicious fun begins. With Jonty, Pablo, Brian and Dan there are plenty of males in her life but will any of them prove to be the right ingredient for Jax?

This is a spicy tale, starting with a text jilting, getting stirred up with cookery lessons and family dramas, a campaign, secrets and surprises into a delectable recipe for love. It hooks the reader in from the start and is an adventurous, tasty read - a fun book to escape into.

I requested and was gifted a copy of this book via NetGalley and this is my honest opinion after choosing to read it.

A delicious story of rejection and acceptance. Avoiding what would probably have been a disastrous marriage, Jaz sets out to become her own person and finds true love in the process.

This is a great holiday read. There is escapism and feels quite breezy throughout.
Enjoyed the story and liked the food!

This is a cute , romantic comedy. Jax cancels her wedding on the day of via text and all the fun starts from there. If you like Jane Green or Sophie Kinsella you will love Lucy Beresford.

I thought this was an excellent story of a disfunctional family and how major life events can mend it. Jax was a great example of how you can bouce back after getting your heart broken and the journey that you go on to become whole again.

This book is hard to describe, yet easy to describe! It's chick lit humor mixed with reality TV, mixed with romantic comedy, dysfunctional family drama, mixed with a true beach read. Which means you will be laughing all the way through the book, smiling and nodding in agreed with the dysfunction. It's a tale of sisterly love above all else, and how when we trust ourselves, we find what we truly need, not what we thought we wanted. Put this one on the MUST read list for Summer!

To be fair any book that features cake as a mainstay of the plot, is a winner in my view but with believable characters and a really awesome story. This book is a winner in my opinion.

This is a foodie’s dream novel. It is full of descriptions of the tastes of food, the sight of food, and even the philosophy of food. That food is love and cooking is giving love to the recipients.  A philosophy that Jewish and Italian mothers amongst others will surely agree with.

You drool over the cakes described – and if you eat meat (which I don’t) then you would drool over the dishes, all this from an author who clearly in love with food herself.

Well written and very well described. Fun to read and dream.

Jax dumps her cheating fiancé on their wedding morning and escapes to a cookery course, one she perhaps shouldn't need as her controlling mum is a famous tv chef. The story is very much foodie themed and it made me very hungry reading all the delicious sounding descriptions! Jax falls into bed with not one but two men on the rebound but eventually realises that someone who has been waiting in the wings is the right man for her. The tale definitely isn't all sweetness and light, dealing with the effect eating disorders can have on people and portraying Jax' sister's attempted suicide but these topics are sensitively covered.