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Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Beth Chalmers
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
When her life falls apart on the eve of her 40th birthday, Kate Parker finds herself volunteering at the Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. Cecily's tongue is as sharp as her mind, but she's fed up with pretty much everything. Having no patience with Kate's choices, Cecily prescribes her a self-help book with a difference.
Food for Thought, a charming 1950s cookbook high on enthusiasm, features menus for anything life can throw at the easily dismayed. So begins an unlikely friendship between two lonely and stubborn soul - one at the end of her life, one stuck in the middle - who both discover one big life lesson: no one should ever be ashamed to ask for more.
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- Linda
- 03-10-21
Took A While
It took me a while to get into this story. The lead up to the heart of the story seemed to take forever and when it got there I understood why the long backstory. It is light reading and thoroughly enjoyable.