Last year the Wall Street Journal short-listed Melissa Ford’s blog about fertility issues, “Stirrup Queens” as one of the country’s best motherhood-themed journals.
Now Melissa has put her insights on the blogging life into a smart, funny, poignant novel about the pain of divorce and the healing power of writing about it. LIFE FROM SCRATCH follows heartbroken New Yorker Rachel Goldman as she struggles with her first year of single life. She can’t even fry an egg correctly, and she wonders if her lack of homebody skills helped K.O. her marriage to a busy lawyer. She sets out to prove she can find the way to a man’s heart through his stomach, but along the way she starts blogging about her misadventures in the kitchen.
Soon her “Life From Scratch” blog segues into a diary about her marriage, her loneliness, her mistakes, and her clumsy efforts to develop a new love life with a sexy Spanish photographer. Soon her blog is a surprise hit, her romance is taking off, and her kitchen skills are becoming impressive. But Rachel still misses her ex-husband, and her blog fans don’t realize that she’s not done with her journey to recreate her life from scratch.
Mary Alice, co-star of Food Network’s ACE OF CAKES show, says LIFE FROM SCRATCH “made me laugh out loud and made me hungry.”
LIFE FROM SCRATCH. Now available at all online booksellers in paperback and ebook.
