Four divorced women bake the wedding cakes they actually wanted. The first slice goes to someone who stayed.
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Peter insists the corner piece is his because it has the most frosting. Viola thinks baking it gives her first claim. They managed to feed each other through her divorce while maintaining a perfectly respectable feud over a cherry tree. Turning up on his doorstep with two forks might finally spoil that arrangement.
In this Baltimore baking circle, women in their forties, fifties and sixties get to want things out loud. A voice teacher has two names to put on a cake box. A perfectionist keeps a widower’s crooked icing roses. The free novella sends a slice of red velvet to the locksmith who showed up in slippers when Fern needed him.
An extra slice reunites a locksmith and an old flame. The end piece goes to the neighbour who ate standing up beside a friend’s sink. A double-name cake changes who gets invited to family celebrations. The final rose belongs to the class teacher, who has never let anybody make something ugly for her.
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When Fern locked herself out on the first night in her new flat, Hal came over in slippers. He charged her for the key and stayed for the bad coffee. A year later she shows up at his shop carrying a slice of red velvet. Hal has had a crush on Fern since ninth grade. He also has a remarkably good memory for the names of men she chose instead.
Peter claims the corner square because it has the most frosting. Viola claims it because she did the baking. Both claims are more convincing than their decade-old dispute about the cherry tree between their houses. After her divorce Peter spent months arriving with supper and leaving before the neighbours noticed. Now Viola turns up at his door with two forks. Somebody has to sit down first.
Pam’s adult daughter wants a perfectly ordinary graduation dinner. Pam can manage ordinary if nobody asks why she has piped Sacha’s name beside hers on the cake box. The two women have been friends for years and lovers for six weeks. Sacha has already celebrated one birthday in a relationship described to everyone else as friendship. She would prefer not to acquire another.
Bernice can pipe a rose with her eyes closed. Joel’s roses look like little red cabbages. She has quietly kept every one he’s ever made. When the women in her class announce it’s her turn to receive a cake, Bernice invents a schedule conflict. Accepting a lopsided flower from Joel would mean acknowledging the future she has been decorating around.
The first cake comes home with a second fork stuck in the corner. That fork belongs to the neighbour who becomes the hero of Book 1.
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