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My Review of "City Baker's Guide to Country Living"

Louise Miller's The City Baker's Guide to Country Living is a novel that satisfies, like grandma's pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving.  It's about creating family where you find it and finding your place in the world.  And it does that by striking the right balance, never veering off into oversentimentality.  If there's room for just one novel on your holiday reading list, it should be this one.

Olivia Rawlings is a legit baker (ahem, pastry chef), a culinary institute grad with 15 years under her belt.  Although baking is about precision and detail, her life is somewhat in chaos.  She's behind on her rent and sleeping with an older married guy and doesn't seem to have much guilt about it.  And then, one night a flaming baked Alaska sets fire to her career in Boston and she runs off to her bestie in Guthrie, Vermont.  All this in the first chapter -- this is a book that doesn't fear throwing its readers right into the action.

Guthrie is a town full of character, and people who know all about one another's business.

But while there's a touch of small town romance, this novel is also a dessert-lover's dream.

Don't miss The City Baker's Guide to Country Living!

I received a free copy of this book as part of the Blogging for Books program in exchange for my honest review here.

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