Miss Cecily's recipes for exceptional ladies

by Vicky Zimmerman
large type - 2020

"Breakfast with a Hangover Dinner for a Charming Stranger Tea for a Crochety Aunt Food for feasting, friends are for savoring, and the way to a man's heart is...irrelevant 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, featuring menus for anything life can throw at the "easily dismayed." So begins an unlikely friendship between two lonely and stubborn souls--one at the end of her life, one stuck in the middle--who discover one big life lesson: never be ashamed to ask for more"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zimmerman, Vicky (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020.
Edition:Large print edition.
Series:Thorndike press large print basic
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