Amber is a chef in the throes of a sticky divorce who has quite enough on her plate (and the plates of her customers) without the terror of working for a wunderkind-slash-horrendous-dictator celebrity chef. So, because this is chick lit and the inevitable is, well, inevitable, that's just where she finds herself, landing a new job in the kitchen of Oscar Retford. The book is well researched, or at least appears that way to the lay reader, and I learnt a lot about kitchen life from it. Unfortunately the descriptions of the food were less appetizing and seemed horribly wrong for the flitty genre of chick lit, complete with graphic pictures of porcine snouts and ...  Read the complete review

Take one newly single woman: At thirty-one, Amber is being bombarded with wedding invitations just as she's collecting her divorce papers - and her bossy best friend has gone one step further and made her chief bridesmaid. It's high time Amber regained control of her life. Add a passionate and fiery celebrity cook: Amber's joy at landing herself a coveted role in Oscar Retford's kitchen soon fades as she discovers Oscar is as famous for his furious temper and addiction to firing people as he is for the legendary meals he creates. Turn up the heat: But as passions start to run high, and her past catches up with her, it looks like Amber's cooked up a recipe for disaster ..  Read the complete review