Love Apples
by Melissa van Maasdyk
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Pub Date 30 Sep 2016 | Archive Date 12 Jul 2017
Description
The Devil Wears Prada meets Chocolat in this delicious debut by a former Marie Claire and Elle Decoration editor, Melissa van Maasdyk.
Ambitious food writer and
commitment-phobe Kate Richmond has just been appointed as lifestyle editor at glamorous Be magazine for the bumper summer
issue. It’s 2008 and the world of magazines is changing. Pressures from the
recession and digital outlets mean that Kate must deliver or Be faces closure. Choosing the island of
Mauritius for the shoot, Kate finds herself beset by cyclones, tricky colleagues
and matters of the heart.
She loves her wine-expert boyfriend, Daniel, but doesn’t want to get married. It didn’t work out for her mother and Kate has no intentions of letting love scupper her career. When she cheats on Daniel with hotel worker Fai Li she finds herself questioning whether fidelity is in her DNA. Especially when she is forced to close a cost-saving barter deal between the sheets with the hotel’s suave CEO.
Back in London, the trip's failure combined with the wrath of a colleague precipitates the closure of Be and suddenly, Kate, who has always put her career ahead of love, finds herself without a job, without a boyfriend and bereft.
But magazine jobs are thin on the ground and Kate finds herself looking at other avenues. When she finally musters the courage to pursue a job as the host of a new TV cookery show Kate realizes that she is braver than she thought. And that love is worth the risk.
Divided between London’s glamorous publishing world and the laid-back island of Mauritius, Love Apples invites readers to sample the behind-the-scenes dramas of a glossy magazine, while on a deeper level delving into love, marriage, infidelity and the question of why people continue to invest in a convention so prone to failure.
The novel draws on van Maasdyk’s experience working on various magazines over the past two decades, including Marie Claire and Elle Decoration in the U.K., Style in South Africa and Time Out in Bahrain, on which she was launch editor.
The novel ends with a selection of all the recipes referenced in the book
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781483452883 |
| PRICE | £14.84 (GBP) |
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Featured Reviews
Christi S, Reviewer
This book combines some of my favorite things - food and romance! It was a nice read - great for the book reading foodie.
Patricia R, Reviewer
I loved this book, it was a fun read and the recipes look delish!!
The book is centered around Kate, a food editor for a women's magazine trying to balance work and love. Set in London and Mauritius, the book takes us through all of the hoops Kate must jump to keep her new promotion, while trying to figure out the next step in the relationship with her boyfriend Daniel.
I really enjoyed this book and will highly recommend it.
Ilana W, Reviewer
Savorously well written, with a story set in the glamorous and revengeful world of glossy magazines, Love Apples is a great read. It is not only a relaxing beach book, but it introduces characters with psychological depth and interesting situations that you would hardly abandon until the book is over.
Katherine H, Reviewer
3.5 to 4 stars for Love Apples, which tells the story of Kate Richmond, who works for Be magazine writing about her passion-food. She loves Daniel, but is scared to totally commit to him. She seems independent like she knows what she wants from life. She lives in London. It's 2008 and Be Magazine is struggling. In an effort to save the magazine, Kate ends up on an all-expenses-paid trip to the paradise island of Mauritius along with her colleagues and boss, Roberta, for whom the trip seems to be about luxury than anything else.
The island is a mixture of Indian French and Creole cultures set against the backdrop of the Indian Ocean, and this is represented by the people and the mouthwatering exotic food. It's a very atmospheric book, and the descriptions of the places in it, London and Mauritius, are very well represented, but sometimes the descriptions are overly wordy. I'd have liked more romance.
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