This was an absolutely fabulous and unique book that I completely enjoyed.

Sam and Ruth live with Ruth’s mother and their 16 year old daughter. Their world is turned upside down when Sam loses his job and Ruth’s father is in an accident and needs to move in to be looked after by the family. Ruth’s parents don’t care much for one another and fight constantly.

Ruth tries to keep everything together, but when Sam decides he’d rather look at buying and selling boats as a trade rather than the job he’s been doing for the past 20 years, the whole family decides it might be time for Ruth to get a job herself.

Ruth loves to bake cakes, so what better idea than to go into a cake baking business. The whole family gets involved in supporting Ruth’s new career move.

The book is well written and charming. I absolutely loved it. To top it all off, at the back of the book there are cake recipies for all the cakes mentioned in the book. What a unique idea!

Great book.