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Pot Love Kindle Edition

by Sylvia Ashby (Author, Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
Ashley Burkе is your average next-door girl. She lives with her boyfriend, loves her work and secretly fancies her boss.

When Ashley loses it all through no fault of her own, well, apart from snogging her boss and getting caught by his fiancée, she needs to act fast to find a new job. A lucrative vacancy comes her way – a spot on a popular day-time TV – but there is a catch. It's a cookery spot and Ashley can’t cook to save her life.

Can learning to cook burn your heart?

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“Like a late night, post-pub cheeseboard or the final few drops of Rosé, it will prove mighty hard to resist.”

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“I feel like exploding with how much I love this book. I almost didn't want to read the last few chapters because I wasn't ready for it to be over. I feel like I made a new best friend and visited England, without ever leaving my house.

If this book were a movie, it would be the biggest romantic comedy of the next five years, and I'd be first in line to pay my $10 for a ticket and $20 worth of popcorn and soda.”


“Great characters, interesting plot line and wonderful writing bringing it all together! Well worth the read. Kind of hoping for a sequel.”
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  4. Publication date
    November 23, 2013
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DJB79EW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vangtorp Volumes
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 23, 2013
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 2nd
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 826 KB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 350 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Book 1 of 3 ‏ : ‎ Pot Love
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 out of 5 stars 63 ratings

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Sylvia Ashby is fond of the written word: books, blog posts, recipes, even an explanation to the HM Revenue & Customs as to why she thinks skirts should be exempt from VAT - she's written it all!

She likes travelling and has lived all over Europe - London, Brussels, Amsterdam and Sofia, Bulgaria. Currently, she lives in Leuven, Belgium with her husband, daughter, son and a sparrow called Jack, who comes occasionally to peck the seeds she leaves for him on top of the garden shed.

Visit her at www.sylvia-ashby.com

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Customers find the book fun and well worth reading, with one mentioning they laughed out loud several times while reading it. The storyline features an interesting plot line, and customers appreciate the great characters, with one noting they easily identify with the heroine.

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Customers find the book fun and well worth reading, with several mentioning it's funny, and one customer noting they laughed out loud several times while reading it.

"...It was nice to see her about face. Good storyline. Enjoyed the entire book. Would read this author again & would highly recommend this book." Read more

"...Funny and honest and charming. Read late into the evening and fell asleep with a happy heart." Read more

"I found it to be a fun, light-hearted quick read. A good book for the pool with a lot of laughs and girl stuff...." Read more

"This ain't Tolstoy, but it was an enjoyable and entertaining story! I loved it!..." Read more

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Customers enjoy the storyline of the book, with one mentioning it has a romantic twist.

"...I especially loved Ashley. It was nice to see her about face. Good storyline. Enjoyed the entire book...." Read more

"...While there was certainly the core of an interesting story, I felt the author just peppered us with extraneous bits that hampered the plot...." Read more

"This ain't Tolstoy, but it was an enjoyable and entertaining story! I loved it!..." Read more

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"What a fun book to read! The characters were fantastic. I especially loved Ashley. It was nice to see her about face. Good storyline...." Read more

"...Could easily identify with our heroine and cheer her on through all her career and romantic stumbling as she makes her way to her happily-ever-after...." Read more

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  • Lynda Bassett
    5.0 out of 5 stars Clumsy
    Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2014
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    What a fun book to read! The characters were fantastic. I especially loved Ashley. It was nice to see her about face. Good storyline. Enjoyed the entire book. Would read this author again & would highly recommend this book.
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  • Christina Boyd
    5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, honest, charming
    Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2017
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    Easy to recommend this easy, breezy, and likable characters. Could easily identify with our heroine and cheer her on through all her career and romantic stumbling as she makes her way to her happily-ever-after. Funny and honest and charming. Read late into the evening and fell asleep with a happy heart.
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  • Carol Gruppe
    4.0 out of 5 stars It's a great summer read!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2013
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    I found it to be a fun, light-hearted quick read. A good book for the pool with a lot of laughs and girl stuff. But the cooking was the best part and is a dream for anyone who loves to cook. It made me remember what it was like to be in my 20's struggling to be a "grown-up."
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  • MissMommy
    3.0 out of 5 stars Pot Un-Lucky
    Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2013
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    I purchased this on the basis of the enthusiastic reviews, but this book failed to live up to the hype. First, it was badly edited: "her eyes were READ from crying" and "the bread was left to PROVE"....that would be "proof", which obviously was not done on the manuscript, either.
    While there was certainly the core of an interesting story, I felt the author just peppered us with extraneous bits that hampered the plot. She needed to cut most of the beginning story and completely eliminate the bit at the end with her roommate. A good editor would have done wonders for this book.
    Spoiler: And oh, so gross...while working in a restaurant, the main character bleeds on potatoes and they just rinse them off. Has the author EVER been in a professional kitchen? It really ruins the author's credibility. If you are going to include recipes in a novel, you should know your way around the kitchen.
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  • Jmeijlaers
    5.0 out of 5 stars like good cooking
    Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2013
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    This book is recommended to me by a good friend who knows the predicament I am in. While Sir Terry Pratchett's body is still with us, defiantly holding up an "I ain't dead yet!!" sign, his mind has gone out borrowing, some day not to return. I am in need for good read. (For those who don't know what i'm writing about, there are like 50 more books to read for you AFTER this one).

    Pot Love is about.. well I can't really say yet for sure. Good writing has a lot in common with good food. After the first few bites you sort of feel like you could finish the whole pot off in one whole niter page turner food fest but then somehow you go like, no, not this way. You take a few more bites, let the taste develop a bit more on your tongue, you try to figure out the ingredients by look & feel & smell, then you put the pot aside for the night so the tastes get a bit more time to develop. And you can anticipate how you will enjoy reading on tomorrow. So the rest...will be read after a good night of sleep.

    After a first not too brief taste from this Pot Love I can report that this promises to be a good eat. It smells delicious, tiptoes lightly over the tongue yet nicely filling & fulfilling in the stomach.

    Translation for readers: if you like your reading light but with some delightful little tidbits that are food for the brain than this is a promising first. Now just hope we all can polish of our plates & go for second helpings.

    J.

    PS if my review is a bit clunky language-wise, English is not my first language. Commenting on cooking & Pot Love simply goes a lot easier na Frenski Ezik err, i mean in French ;-)
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  • Vero
    1.0 out of 5 stars It just didn't grab me and got too bored and stop reading it too early
    Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2014
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    I just couldn't get too far on this book. It just didn't grab me and got too bored and stop reading it too early.
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  • Avidfan
    2.0 out of 5 stars Just had to call it quits. Bad.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2014
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    Just couldn't get over the bad grammar, word usage, and misspellings. As another reviewer noted, "prove" the bread dough, "read" eyes, and how about stainless "steal"? What about smitten for nonplussed? I did like the peek at young, British culture.
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  • tigerwoods&lola
    5.0 out of 5 stars Strange title, adorable story
    Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2014
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    This ain't Tolstoy, but it was an enjoyable and entertaining story! I loved it! Not sure why I prefer chick lit placed in England but it adds to the character of a book for me. I'm downloading more of Sylvia Ashby' works today!
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  • B.R. Maycock
    5.0 out of 5 stars loved it all!!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2018
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    Remember Treachery of Trains (read review here)? Well at the time I saw this, which is Sylvia Ashby’s first book, and I was mesmerised but the thought of pairing Ms. Ashby’s excellent turn of phrase with cookery, a subject that I am obsessed with, mainly because I can’t! The book opens with a recipe for scrambled eggs (I ADORE when people put recipes into fiction books!), and we meet Ashley Burke, who is nervous about beginning to cook it. You might think this is unrealistic but I can totally, totally identify with this. Even though I am a stay at home Mum, my husband is the cook in the family, and every day I stand before whatever I am about to attempt to cook with apprehension. The only things that even roughly work out are the things that you can’t feed your kids more than once a week, and require simply putting in the oven (they are fine with this!) Everything else? It ends up charred (never undercooked, I don’t want to give them food poisoning!), crispy, soggy or lumpy. Things congeal that shouldn’t, and the meals always just taste a little bit wrong (my husband is diplomatic, but did once admit he didn’t know how I try so hard and yet my food always tastes a bit off). But I digress …

    Ashley’s mantra is “I’m not giving up and ordering a takeaway” and she wants to have something presentable for her very by the book boyfriend Simon, who by now banks on her not being able to put anything forward as an alternative for take-out. There are some great references in here, from Aimee Winehouse to The Truman Show to Mission Impossible to Jamie Oliver, which made the sum of all parts, the book in its entirety feel like it was custom fit for me.

    Ashley is a newsreader, which gives a nice edge to the book, as she reads about politics and the like, but when something hits the fan and she needs a new job she sees the perfect presenting job. Only trouble is, it’s presenting a TV cookery show. What ensues is a book that wouldn’t let me go, as we watch Ashley begin to learn about cooking from the spell binding Giacomo, a top chef who imparts a world of knowledge about food and his native Sardinia. The depth here was enthralling and I was reeled in to experience it all, the culture, the produce, the dishes. The change of location, as in The Treachery Of Trains, was perfection as it both educated me and made me wasn’t to go travelling to see Sardinia in all it’s beauty.

    I loved the humour, the descriptions, the characters (in particular her mum, who was just so vivid), the gorgeous (gorgeous) romance, the pacing, all of it. This coupled with the fact that I’ve ‘met’ Sylvia Ashby on social media and she’s so lovely, mean I’m totally in- another author to follow.

    Rating: 5/5
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