Book Review - Saving The Day by Katie Fforde - #QuickReads

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Title: Saving The Day

Author: Katie Fforde

Format reviewed: Paperback

Source: Midas PR

Publisher: Arrow / The Reading Agency

Publication Date: 

Rating: 5 Stars

She has only one chance to turn her life around...

Allie is bored with her job and starting to wonder whether she even likes her boyfriend, Ryan.

The high point in her day is passing a café on her walk home from work. It is the sort of place where she'd really like to work.

Then one day she sees as advert on the door: assistant wanted. But before she can land her dream job, Allie knows she must achieve two things:

1. Learn to cook

2. End her relationship with Ryan, especially as through the window of the café, she spies a waiter who looks much more like her type of man.

And when she learns that the café is in danger of closing, Allie knows she must do her very best to save the day ...

I’ve always been a huge fan of Katie Fforde, so when I saw she was one of the 15th Anniversary of Quick Reads authors this years, and was offered the chance to review Saving The Day, I jumped very fast. 

In a novella spanning just over 80 pages, we a treated to a snapshot of Ally's life, as she hopes to learn to cook enough to be able to leave her supermarket job and start working at a local cafe. 

It may be short but there is still plenty of time to grow a strong hatred towards Ryan, Ally's boyfriend who she intends to dump if at all possible.  Then there is Cherry her neighbour who really takes Ally under her wing and teaches her how to cook. 

I feel that that the circumstances the characters found themselves in, are incredibly relatable to, especially I would suspect to those who are the target demographic from the Quick Reads programme. 

It takes a really skilled author to pull off telling a full story that shows growth and development over a relatively short amount of pages. And to make it accessible to reluctant readers too, is impressive. 

As is suggested this really was for me a quick read and I zoomed through it in perhaps an hour, and I enjoyed getting to know Allie and her life. 

There are even some recipes at the end, which by mentioning them, should give you idea that the book does contain food and could make you crave well in my case the fluffy American pancakes that were mentioned. 

I loved this story a lot and look forward to Katie Fforde's next full length novels. 

Thank you to Midas PR for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.