A Serving of Scandal
By (Author) Prue Leith
Quercus Publishing
Quercus Publishing
1st January 2011
14th October 2010
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
320
Width 130mm, Height 199mm, Spine 23mm
250g
Kate McKinnon is thirty-six and mother to five-year-old Toby. She has a small but thriving business catering for private clients. Her life is on an even keel. That is, until she gets a job cooking lunch at the Foreign Office and has her first fateful meeting with Oliver Stapler, Secretary of State. He's powerful and charismatic, but also married and a father and totally out of bounds, yet she falls for him.
When a journalist spots them together, he alerts the gutter press. Who cares whether Kate's affair with Oliver is true or not It's a great story and will shift a ton of newspapers - and destroy several lives in the process."Sophie Kinsella for grown ups." "Daily Express""
"Sophie Kinsella for grown ups." --"Daily Express"
As a cook, restaurateur, food writer and business woman, Prue Leith she has played a key role in the revolution of Britain's eating habits since the Sixties. In 1995, having published twelve cookbooks, she gave up writing about food to concentrate on fiction. A Serving of Scandal is her fifth novel. Prue lives in Notting Hill, London and Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire. Visit Prue's website at www.prue-leith.com.