A Serving of Scandal
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
People just love a scandal . . . Kate McKinnon is thirty-six and mother to five-year-old Toby. She used to be a restaurant chef, but then Toby came along. Now she has a small but thriving catering business. Her life is on an even keel but that's about to change.
She gets a job cooking lunch at the Foreign Office and there she has her first fateful meeting with Oliver Stapler, Secretary of State. Married and a father, he's totally out of bounds, yet she falls for him. Though she tries to keep her feelings secret, rumours start to fly. When someone alerts the gutter press, who cares whether Kate's affair with Oliver is true or not?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British celebrity chef Leith (The Choral Society) charms with this story of the friendship between single caterer Kate McKinnon and married British Foreign Secretary Oliver Stapler. Oliver's appreciation for and knowledge of food is a perfect match for Kate's skill in crafting meals, increasing their mutual regard. When a scandal-hungry tabloid accuses them of having an affair, their lives are thrown into turmoil. Oliver's career and marriage disintegrate, and he must reconsider the assumptions he's made about his life and ambitions. Kate's catering business collapses as she loses government contracts and is hounded by merciless reporters, and she realizes that her innocent feelings for Oliver have blossomed into desire. For all its tangled relationships, this tale is really a three-way romance among food, those who prepare it, and those who eat it; descriptions of "scratch" meals are as appealing as those of the gourmet dinners Kate creates, and when she describes cooking as "an act of love," the true heart of the story is revealed.
Customer Reviews
A nice gentle story
Well written and kept me engaged. Characters were well constructed. A good read.