The Recipe Box, Sandra Lee
The Recipe Box, Sandra Lee
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The Recipe Box

Author: Sandra Lee

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 5 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/02/2013

Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life


Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Sandra Lee comes her debut novel, a heartwarming story about food, family, and forgiveness.Grace Holm-D'Angelo is at her wit's end, trying to create a new life from broken pieces. Newly divorced, she is navigating suddenly becoming a single mother to her fourteen-year-old daughter. Emma, resentful about being uprooted from Chicago to Los Angeles and still reeling from the divorce, is generally giving her mother a hard time.Then Grace's best friend, Leeza, succumbs to breast cancer after a long battle, and Grace realizes you don't get a second chance at life. She returns to her hometown of New London, Wisconsin, to try to reconcile with her own mother, Lorraine, from whom she's been estranged for longer than she cares to remember.Over the course of the summer, Grace rediscovers the healing powers of cooking, coming to terms with your past, and friendship and learns you can go home again, and sometimes that's exactly where you belong.The Recipe Box celebrates mothers, daughters, and friendships and also features Sandra's delicious original recipes.

About Sandra Lee

Sandra Lee is an Emmy-winning and internationally acclaimed expert in all things kitchen and home. She has predicted and changed the trajectory of American lifestyle with her signature “smart and simple” philosophy. She is the host of Food Network’s Sandra’s Money Saving Meals and Semi-Homemade Cooking, a veteran program on the network in its fifteenth season, as well as the host of HGTV’s Sandra Lee Celebrates, a series of holiday primetime specials. Sandra has launched several lines of home, garden, and craft products and produced a successful DIY home improvement series. Her new home products line, Sandra by Sandra Lee, launched at Sears and Kmart in spring 2012. Since 2002 Sandra has written more than twenty cookbooks and a memoir, Made from Scratch, which all together have sold over four million copies.

About Xe Sands

Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration, performance, and visual art, including recordings of the Nightwalkers series from Jaquelyn Frank. She has received several honors, including AudioFile Earphones Awards and a coveted Audie Award, and she was named Favorite Debut Romance Narrator of 2011 in the Romance Audiobooks poll.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dale on November 15, 2013

Three and a half stars. Grace, still recovering from her divorce finds herself struggling with being a single mother of a young teenager. Her daughter, Emma, resents being taken away from her friends in Chicago and taken to Los Angeles. In Los Angeles Grace works with her long time friend Ken on the......more

Goodreads review by Ann on July 10, 2013

This is my favorite type of book. Family interactions, mothers, daughters, and daughters. Grace decides she needs to heal her own life when her best friend dies of cancer. I liked the setting in Wisconsin. I loved the interaction with the residents of the small town. A great story with yummy recipes......more

Goodreads review by Jennie on June 12, 2018

This is a book written by Sandra Lee. The story is about three generations and how their lives change. Grace found out when she was young that the man she knew as her father was not who was listed on her birth certificate. As a result she and her mother were not close at all. Emma who is Grace's dau......more

Goodreads review by Michelle Behr on May 27, 2022

This was a quick fun read that would be great to take to the beach. Kind of a Hallmark movie story but perfect if you are looking for something light to read.......more

Goodreads review by Marcie on August 13, 2021

Good light reading for pool/beach! Great recipes throughout the book!......more


Quotes

“[A] heartwarming tale of a mother and daughter who are facing real-life problems and show the courage and determination to confront them, along with some clever details that flesh out the story in unique, surprising ways. Fans of Lee will likely find this a fun, quirky addition to her eclectic media presence.” Kirkus Reviews