Stella Weston has worked for years to
secure her place as a top television producer and the best mum and
wife her career would allow, so when her conniving boss puts her out
to pasture in the gardening programming department, Stella’s
family-life, along with her career, take a nose-dive when she’s
packed off to the country to produce a curious Songs of Praise meets
Gardener’s World hybrid.
As Stella’s personal and professional
life take hit after hit, she seeks comfort in the only therapy she’s
ever known-baking and eating the products of said baking.
There’s a gay best friend, a
flamboyant divorcee, a tart married to a vicar, a cheating husband
and a draconian power-dressing boss, making Fat Girls and Fairy Cakes
more predictably cast than a Grimm’s fairytale.
When you learn that author, Sue Watson,
is a real-life TV producer turned author, the lack of ingenuity in
her ‘creation’ of TV producer turned professional baker, Stella
Watson, I mean, Weston becomes even more disappointing.
Fat Girls and Fairy Cakes is one of
those inoffensive reads that should hold the attention of
easily-pleased chick-lit fans for a couple of days or so and all
those lengthy passages about baking can be skipped over to help you
get to the end of this predictable froth as quickly as possible.
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