The Pastry Chef

The Pastry Chef captures the magic of the culinary world, its delectable bakeries, and fine restaurants. Chocolate Napoleons, flaky croissants and beautifully decorated cakes are skillfully blended together in a mixing bowl of family issues, moral dilemmas, love struggles, business successes and failures and even a Wall Steet scandal. The result is a warm, page-turning story that will leave you hungry for more...and wishing for a piece of pie. Although they do not know each other, Sadie and SueEllen’s lives became intricately and forever intertwined. Although from different backgrounds and financial circumstances, they each bravely conquer life’s pitfalls with aplomb and discover their fervor for baking. When they meet, they begin to unwind the complicated threads of their lives that first separated and finally united them. Sadie grew up in modest circumstances in New York and at age seventeen, she ran away from home and took temporary shelter in a youth hostel in San Francisco. Alone