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Rachel Dalton feels trapped in her mundane life. Her job is just about tolerable, her social life is in serious need of attention and her mother is hovering like an avenging angel trying to make her into the wonderful daughter that she's always dreamed of! Something has to change and Rachel realises that it's down to herself to sort her life out.
She decides to join the Absolute Beginners class at the prestigious Gourmet Rooms cookery school under the formidable Mrs. Carter. It is her first step towards reinvention through which she meets the most unlikely group of friends. Over the next ten weeks, Rachel learns that every heart holds a secret, even if it doesn't always show on the outside.
Rosa Mooney, rich, cosseted and frivolous, is planning a glorious career as the proprietor of an elegant restaurant. Sick of being treated like a child, she still needs her parents' influence to get her a place at The Gourmet Rooms.
Annie Lewis has fled her old life in the capital for the tranquillity of her small health store in Cork city, having blown her chance at happiness. But is there really only the one chance?
Agnes Cotter is thrilled at the thought of mixing with the rich and possibly famous clientele at The Gourmet Rooms. The genteel persona that she presents to the world masks a life of drudgery and bitterness. But can she hide it from the others and maintain the facade that she has so diligently constructed?
All the would be chefs of the Absolute Beginners course realise that life is much more than the ingredients it's made up of!
Genre: Literary Fiction
She decides to join the Absolute Beginners class at the prestigious Gourmet Rooms cookery school under the formidable Mrs. Carter. It is her first step towards reinvention through which she meets the most unlikely group of friends. Over the next ten weeks, Rachel learns that every heart holds a secret, even if it doesn't always show on the outside.
Rosa Mooney, rich, cosseted and frivolous, is planning a glorious career as the proprietor of an elegant restaurant. Sick of being treated like a child, she still needs her parents' influence to get her a place at The Gourmet Rooms.
Annie Lewis has fled her old life in the capital for the tranquillity of her small health store in Cork city, having blown her chance at happiness. But is there really only the one chance?
Agnes Cotter is thrilled at the thought of mixing with the rich and possibly famous clientele at The Gourmet Rooms. The genteel persona that she presents to the world masks a life of drudgery and bitterness. But can she hide it from the others and maintain the facade that she has so diligently constructed?
All the would be chefs of the Absolute Beginners course realise that life is much more than the ingredients it's made up of!
Genre: Literary Fiction
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