Hello, Sunshine
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- £11.99
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- £11.99
Publisher Description
Quand une top chef made in YouTube devient le plus gros bad buzz de l'histoire de la cuisine ! Tout en émotion et en humour, un roman savoureux qui prône le retour au vrai, à la famille et au goût des bonnes choses.
À trente-cinq ans, Sunshine Mackenzie est à la tête de la chaîne YouTube la plus trendy du moment. Entre sa célèbre émission de cuisine " A Little Sunshine ", ses millions de followers, son loft à Tribeca et son amoureux parfait, la vie de la jeune femme a tout d'un conte de fées. Jusqu'au jour où la chantilly retombe : un troll révèle que la belle est une usurpatrice, une " chef " tout juste capable de faire cuire un œuf. Pire encore : des photos d'elle occupée à tromper son époux enflamment la toile...
Bye-bye les followers, les sponsors, le mari, le loft à crédit ! Devenue persona non grata à New York, Sunshine n'a plus qu'à rentrer piteusement au bercail, dans les Hamptons, et à entamer sa quête de rachat. Apprentissage auprès d'un chef aussi étoilé qu'intransigeant, mea culpa familial, tentative de reconquête amoureuse : Sunshine trouvera-t-elle enfin la recette magique ?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After focusing on wine in her previous novel, Eight Hundred Grapes, Dave's new novel centers on food, following a disgraced YouTube chef forced to confront her (in)authentic self. On her 35th birthday, Sunshine Mackenzie wakes up on top of the world: she has a successful online cooking show and several cookbooks to her name, not to mention a lucrative Food Network contract. But when a hacker reveals on Twitter that Sunshine's entire public persona from her culinary chops to her picture-perfect marriage to her down-home upbringing is a fraud, she quickly discovers just how fragile and fleeting success can be. Fleeing scandal by retreating to Montauk and her estranged sister's strained good graces, Sunshine desperately casts about for a new beginning; soon enough, however, she realizes that starting over isn't easy when you no longer have any idea who you really are. In Sunshine, Dave reveals her skill at crafting deeply flawed yet sympathetic characters and avoids easy resolutions in favor of realizations hard won by the heroine. The settings both the glamorous Manhattan and Hamptons environs and the restaurant-kitchen intrigues are engaging, but ultimately Sunshine's journey to define herself apart from her Instagram filters and YouTube followers is where the novel shines.
