Alicia Bessette’s debut novel Simply From Scratch was released in hardback in August last year and strangely enough, for it’s paperback release on October 25th 2011, not only has the novel been given a new cover, but it also has a new title and will now be called A Pinch of Love! I was surprised, actually because I LOVED the previous cover (and title!). I’m still looking forward to reading it though. Have any of you read it, is it a good novel?

With a little bit of flour and a pinch of love, anything is possible… Rose-Ellen “Zell” Carmichael Roy doesn’t cook, but she wears her late husband Nick’s camouflage apron every day. That’s her widow style. It’s been more than a year since Nick’s tragic death during a post- Katrina relief mission in New Orleans, but Zell can’t bring herself to move on. Then, a postman’s error spurs her to enter a baking contest in the hopes of donating the grand prize to the hurricane survivors in Nick’s memory. After Zell’s first attempt at baking goes embarrassingly awry, she meets Ingrid Knox-her motherless nine-year-old neighbor-and the two forge an unlikely friendship that will alter both their lives forever.

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