A Serving of Scandal
Prue Leith
A Serving of Scandal
Kate McKinnon is thirty-six and mother to Toby. She used to be a restaurant chef but that all stopped when Toby - now five - came along and changed everything. Now she has a small but thriving business catering for private clients, companies and some government departments. Her life is on an even keel. Then she gets a job cooking lunch at the Foreign Office and has her first fateful meeting with Oliver Stapler, Secretary of State. He's married and a father and totally out of bounds, yet she falls for him. She thinks she's hiding it beautifully, but there are people who would like to see her fail and to them her feelings are all too transparent. When someone alerts the gutter press, who cares whether Kate's affair with Oliver is true or not? It's a great story and will shift a ton of newspapers - and destroy several lives at the same time.
3.0 out of 5 based on 2 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Classification |
Fiction |
| Genre |
Romance |
| Format |
Hardback |
| Pages |
320 |
| RRP |
£17.99 |
| Date of Publication |
March 2010 |
| ISBN |
978-1849161695 |
| Publisher |
Quercus |
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Kate McKinnon is thirty-six and mother to Toby. She used to be a restaurant chef but that all stopped when Toby - now five - came along and changed everything. Now she has a small but thriving business catering for private clients, companies and some government departments. Her life is on an even keel. Then she gets a job cooking lunch at the Foreign Office and has her first fateful meeting with Oliver Stapler, Secretary of State. He's married and a father and totally out of bounds, yet she falls for him. She thinks she's hiding it beautifully, but there are people who would like to see her fail and to them her feelings are all too transparent. When someone alerts the gutter press, who cares whether Kate's affair with Oliver is true or not? It's a great story and will shift a ton of newspapers - and destroy several lives at the same time.
Reviews
The Daily Express
Virginia Blackburn
"What particularly impresses is Leith's familiarity with the corridors of power. In the acknowledgements at the back she claims to have no such thing but it certainly feels as if she knows her way around Whitehall"
20/04/2010
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The Daily Mail
Wendy Holden
"Prue's great on mouthwatering descriptions of food, but the sort of wild, gasping, head-spinning, naughty, ecstatic power sex we might have been hoping for is sadly not on the menu. Still, it's an enjoyable and satisfying page-turner nonetheless."
03/06/2010
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