Win a copy of Leftovers by Stella Newman.
Leftovers by Stella Newman.
Avon, April 2013.
Thanks to the lovely people at Avon, we have three copies of Stella Newman’s new book, Leftovers to give away.
To enter, simply leave a comment telling us about the funniest/worst disaster you’ve had involving food. The competition closes 23.59 on Tuesday 30th April 2013 and the three winners will be announced on or just after Wednesday 1st May 2013.
Open to UK and Ireland residents.
A little about the book:
A novel about friendship, hope and the power of pasta from the bestselling author of Pear Shaped.
According to a magazine, Susie is a ‘Leftover’ – a post Bridget Jones 30 something who has neither her dream man, job, nor home. She doesn’t even own six matching dinner plates.
According to her friend Rebecca, Susie needs to get over her ex, Jake, start online dating – or at least stop being so rude to every guy who tries to chat her up.
But Susie’s got a plan. If she can just make it the 307 days till her promotion and bonus, she can finally quit and pursue her dream career in food, then surely everything else will fall into place. If only her love life wasn’t so complicated…
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I'm Laura. I started Novel Kicks back in 2009 as I wanted a place to discuss books and writing - two loves of my life. As someone who has anxiety, these two things give me, and I am sure countless others, a much needed escape.
There is a monthly book club, writing exercises, prompts, reviews, author interviews, competitions and guest posts. I cover many genres and I hope there is something for everyone.
I grew up by the sea in Dorset and currently live in Poole with my husband, Chris and three cats. I love writing and have a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing from Falmouth University. I am writing my first book. If only I could stop pressing delete. Chris has threatened to stop it from working. Haha.
I have always loved creative writing since I was in first school and would very much like to meet my teacher, Miss Sayers, to say thank you for all the encouragement she gave me then.
When not writing, I love reading, cats, Disney, singing (I can't sing but this doesn't stop me,) and falling into a good TV show or film. If I could step into any fictional world, it would be amongst the characters in ABC's Once Upon a Time.
I love reading many genres and discovering new authors.
There is a monthly book club, writing exercises, prompts, reviews, author interviews, competitions and guest posts. I cover many genres and I hope there is something for everyone.
I grew up by the sea in Dorset and currently live in Poole with my husband, Chris and three cats. I love writing and have a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing from Falmouth University. I am writing my first book. If only I could stop pressing delete. Chris has threatened to stop it from working. Haha.
I have always loved creative writing since I was in first school and would very much like to meet my teacher, Miss Sayers, to say thank you for all the encouragement she gave me then.
When not writing, I love reading, cats, Disney, singing (I can't sing but this doesn't stop me,) and falling into a good TV show or film. If I could step into any fictional world, it would be amongst the characters in ABC's Once Upon a Time.
I love reading many genres and discovering new authors.
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Oh there are seriously too many to write about! The worst one being that I gave myself mild food poisoning! I stupidly thought that cooking chicken goujons at a higher temperature in the oven would ensure they were well cooked. Unfortunately I found out after eating them (when I was throwing up constantly for a day) that doing that causes only the outside to cook properly.
Thankfully it wasn’t serious! But I’m a bit of a disaster in the kitchen (well with savoury dishes).
After suffering awful morning sickness for months I was out shopping with my husband and really fancied steak. We went for a lovely meal and the food was gorgeous but the baby was not in agreement and I spent most of the meal in the toilets! 🙁
Having had our twins I was so sleep deprived when I attempted to make a bakes macaroni for dinner not only did I put sherry vinegar instead of olive oil in the pan but I put the pasta in the pot without realising I had never filled it with water. Nightmare
Before we had children and were both working I usually prepared dinner bfore going to work.I peeled potatoes and put them in a pot of water, quickly browned the mince and onions and covered with water,both were put on cooker waiting to be cooked when we came home from work. The grill was below the hob and when hubby was finished grilling toast before work he forgot to turn off the grill.When we arrived home that night the house was boiling, the potatoes were cooked and so was the mince, we were so lucking to have caught them before they burned to pieces and burned the house down, but that night we had our dinner early in a lovely warm house.
Making a 7 layer cake with my daughter! It looked so appealing in the photograph that came along with the recipe. Our finished product looked like the leaning tower of Pisa! The marshmallow fluff was supposed to stiffen up like whipped cream- it oozed instead.. the cookie layer was too crispy. The chocolate fudge layer had not risen as much a I would have liked, the cheese cake layer was yellow! It should have been white. and we ran out of chocolate for the frosting that might just have covered the whole cake to hide all the blemishes.
When I was still at school( years ago) I made a cauliflower cheese dish. I did not realise till it came out of the oven that I had picked up the soap flakes instead of the cheese and the whole think was ruined. I had to take it home and I threw it out on the field on my way home I dread to think what the poor horses thought.
I have got better since…..honest.