RECIPE FOR DISASTER
Book ID/图书代码： 08900015B77086
English Summary/英文概要： Stacey Ballis cooks up a delicious broth of a novel about a woman whose perfect life falls apart in spectacular fashion--leaving her with a house to restore, an antique cookbook (but no cooking talent), and one very unhappy schnauzer. For fans of Jen Lancaster, Jennifer Weiner, and Emily Giffin.
To an outside observer, Anneke Stroudt is a mess—her shirts are stained, her fingernails stubby, her language colorful. But, despite her flaws, Anneke’s life is close to perfect. She has a beautiful historic house to restore and a loving fiancé who cooks like a dream.
Until Anneke’s charmed existence falls apart when she loses both her job and her future husband in one terrible day. In need of a new start, she packs up her disgruntled schnauzer and moves into her half-finished home, where she throws her pent-up frustration—and what little savings she has—into finishing the renovation.
But at the first step into the house’s overhaul, Anneke is sidetracked when she discovers a mysterious leather-bound book, long hidden away, filled with tempting recipes and steamy secrets from Emma Ditmore-Smythe, the cook for the house’s original owners. Slowly, with the help of some delicious food and Emma’s life lessons, Anneke begins to realize that, just like a flawless recipe, she’s been waiting for the right ingredients to cook up a perfect life all along…
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 斯塔西•巴里斯很快变为读者们烹饪出了一道美味的小说盛宴，讲述了一名女性的完美生活是如何以一种奇怪的方式分崩离析---却又给她留下了一座可以重新开始的房子，一本古老的烹饪书（当然她绝对算不上是什么烹饪天才），以及一只不太开心的雪纳瑞犬。如果你是詹•兰卡斯特，珍妮弗•维纳和艾米丽•吉芬的粉丝，那么你也一定会喜欢上本书。
在外人看来，安妮科•斯特鲁德生活的一团糟---她的衬衫上斑斑点点，她的指甲又短又粗，她的语言各式参杂。然而尽管有着如此多的缺点，安妮科的生活确实近乎完美：美丽而古老的房屋等待着她去焕然一新，可爱的未婚夫有着近乎梦幻的厨艺。
然而一日，当安妮科失去了工作和她的未婚夫，她的美妙生活也随之崩塌。为了重新开始，她带上了不开心的雪纳瑞，搬进了她算是半完工的新家中，她抛开压抑的沮丧情绪---花光了剩下的少得可怜的积蓄---继续完成房屋的翻新。
然而就在她刚刚开始彻底打扫房子时，安妮科就被自己无意间发现的一本神奇的皮面书吸引了，这本被遗忘了很久的书籍中，充满了各种诱人的食谱和小窍门，来自于一名叫艾玛•迪特莫•斯密斯的人，同时也是这座房屋最初的主人的厨师。慢慢地，在美味的食物和艾玛的人生课程的帮助和引导下，安妮科开始意识到，她自己也正如一道完美的菜肴，正等待着正确的食材，来烹饪出属于自己的完美生活。。。。。。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：睿智，温柔，细腻却又极其聪明。----伊丽莎白•福洛克，纽约时报畅销书作家，著有 What Happened to My Sister
Witty and tender, brash and seriously clever.
– Elizabeth Flock, New York Times bestselling author of What Happened to My Sister
About the Author/作者介绍： 斯塔西•巴里斯是一名作家，著有多部小说，其中包括Inappropriate Men, Sleeping Over, Room for Improvement, The Spinster Sisters, Good Enough to Eat, Off the Menu and Out to Lunch, 以及即将问世的Recipe for Disaster，该书目前已接受预定，2013年3月3日发行。其第一本烹饪书Big Delicious Life现已有电子版，并且作者现正参与编撰一本全新的烹饪书籍Cooking for You: Wellness in the Kitchen with Dr. Francis Ardito，该书将于2015年问世。作者还是选集Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume,以及 Living Jewishly等的供稿人。目前，她正致力于全新的小说作品的创作，该书将于2016年出版。
Stacey Ballis is the author of several novels, incuding Inappropriate Men, Sleeping Over, Room for Improvement, The Spinster Sisters, Good Enough to Eat, Off the Menu and Out to Lunch, and the upcoming Recipe for Disaster currently available for pre-order, being released March 3, 2013. Her first cookbook, Big Delicious Life is out now in a digital edition, and she is at work co-authoring a new cookbook called Cooking for You: Wellness in the Kitchen with Dr. Francis Ardito, which will be released in 2015. She is also a contributing author to the anthologies Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, and Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume, and Living Jewishly. She is currently at work on a new work of full-length fiction called for Berkeley/Penguin, which will be out in 2016.
Format:HARDCOVER
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World English language, Berkley/Penguin, December 2014
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