Bread Alone

by JudithRyanHendricks (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $22.07

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.41

  What does a trophy wife do when, out of the blue, she is told that her services are no longer required? Thirty-one-year-old Wyn loves her husband David very much - but he no longer wants her. With her marriage in ruins, Wyn leaves behind her old life but has no idea what she is going to do now. So she finds somewhere to live, gets a job baking bread on the night shift, and then she waits ...But what begins as simply going through the motions - clocking on, working all night, and sleeping the day away - soon becomes something very different. Wyn's new life offers more than she ever expected, as her future echoes a past she had all but forgotten ...

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.41

  Thirty-one-year-old, Wyn (short for Wynter) Morrison has drifted into the role of trophy wife, largely to please her husband, David whom she loves. But what does a trophy wife do when, suddenly and rudely, she is told that her services are no longer required? Wyn, desperately unhappy and with no marketable skills other than a stint as a baker in France as a student, moves from California to rainy Seattle where her best friend lives. There she gets a job baking bread on the night shift and rents a temporary lodging. At first she's going through the motions of living her strange existence, clocking into the bakery at 11.30 each night, working till 7 and sleeping the day away. But gradually she beds herself in, makes friends, transforms her little house from a bleak rental to a home, rediscovers her calling as a baker and, in her halting attempts to build a new life, she opens herself up to the possibility of loving and being loved again. This novel is perfectly judged. There is real pain, but always livened with humour. The baking/healing analogy is lightly done. There is no easy solution to life after David. Wyn must struggle back up the hard way, relying on her own strength of character, though it takes her a while to recognise that she has any. The final plus is that Hendricks' writing is a joy to read - sensuous, lyrical and true.

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $14.52