Fat Girls and Fairy Cakes - Softcover

Overweight TV producer Stella hates the gardening programme she works - on after all, it involves a timid vicar, his sex mad wife and an obese gardener. Stressed and fed up as her life collapses around her, she focuses on her passion for baking and wonders whether she can turn it into a career. However, what follows is a series of comical disasters. You want to devour this smart and fabulously funny read in one go! --Closer

The right work-life balance is something TV producer Stella Weston has worked hard to perfect. But with a boss bent on sabotaging her career and her loving family feeling increasingly neglected, she turns to the one thing she knows she can get right: baking cakes. Don't read this on an empty stomach! --Now magazine

Naughty but nice: A sparky, funny debut novel that combines a cute chick-lit tale with cake recipes. What's not to like about that? Can TV producer Stella find salvation in the bottom of a baking tin and be happy once more? --Bella

A funny, well-written look at whether you can turn a passion into a profession, with lots of hilarious dates, mishaps and angst woven in...I really enjoyed it. --The Daily Mail

Naughty but nice: A sparky, funny debut novel that combines a cute chick-lit tale with cake recipes. What's not to like about that? Can TV producer Stella find salvation in the bottom of a baking tin and be happy once more? --Bella

Can you really make a living from indulging in your dreams? TV Producer Stella Weston is over worked, over weight and under fire. Having battled uphill for years to balance her career with her family life, she is repaid by being put out to pasture on a religious gardening programme complete with a nervous vicar, his nymphomaniac wife, and 22 stone Britney wannabe gardener, Gerald. In the past, comfort has always been found at the bottom of her mixing bowl but when even the most delicious lemon sponge with zesty frosting cannot save the day, Stella decides enough is enough. However, finding the courage to quit is sometimes the easy part. Can you really turn a passion into a profession? Does more time at home actually give you a happier family life? Are men truly from Mars or another universe altogether? Stella has to roll up her sleeves and find out - when the going gets tough, the tough get baking....