Bread Alone - Softcover

Judi Hendricks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752844776 ISBN 13: 9780752844770

Publisher: Orion Paperbacks, 2002

Synopsis

What does a trophy wife do when, out of the blue, she is told that her services are no longer required? Thirty-one-year-old Wyn loves her husband David very much - but he no longer wants her. With her marriage in ruins, Wyn leaves behind her old life but has no idea what she is going to do now. So she finds somewhere to live, gets a job baking bread on the night shift, and then she waits ...But what begins as simply going through the motions - clocking on, working all night, and sleeping the day away - soon becomes something very different. Wyn's new life offers more than she ever expected, as her future echoes a past she had all but forgotten ...

About this title

About the Author

Judi Hendricks has been a journalist, a baker, and has worked in PR. She now writes full time. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico,with her husband.

From Publishers Weekly

The First Wives Club acquires a junior member in this pleasant if unremarkable first novel. When 31-year-old Wynter Morrison finds herself locked out of her house by her handsome, spoiled husband, David, who has taken up with a beautiful blonde, she is devastated. With only three years' experience teaching high school, one year in real estate sales and seven years experience as the "Executive Wife" and "Charming Hostess," Wyn has little success fending for herself at first, but a growing self-awareness emerges slowly once she leaves her old lifestyle in Los Angeles. After visiting a friend in Seattle, Wyn moves there to take a job at a local bakery. No longer dependent on David, Wyn finds solace in living a spartan existence and working hard in the early morning hours baking bread, though she is frustrated by the unimaginative veteran baker. Her memories of a year abroad in Toulouse during her sophomore year at UCLA where she learned to bake bread in a family bakery are sprinkled throughout the story, as are her favorite bread recipes. Over the course of this long, convoluted tale, Wyn transforms from a "willfully ignorant," betrayed wife living in sunny L.A. whose greatest worry is what to wear to the next symphony ball, to a flannel shirt-wearing bakery owner living in the rainy Northwest who finds love with a bartender-turned-writer. In this engaging novel, Hendricks creates a compelling narrator whose wry, bemused and ultimately wise voice hooks the reader. Even though Wyn's story is predictable at times, this is a well-written, imaginative debut. Agent, Deborah Schneider.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Orion Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752844776
• ISBN 13: 9780752844770
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400