Bread Alone - Import

by Judi Hendricks

Orion/London Trade Paperback with 337 pages - approx. 6 x 9.3" - Wyn Morrison has drifted into the role of a trophy wife, largely to please her husband David whom she loves. But what does a trophy wife do when, suddenly and rudely, she is told that her services are no longer required? Desperately unhappy and with no marketable skills other than a stint as a student baker in France, Wyn moves from California to rainy Seattle where her best friend lives. There she gets a job baking bread on the night shift. As Wyn finds her calling as a baker, so she rediscovers that nothing stays the bread rises, pain fades, the heart heals and the future beckons....Bread Alone is a life-enhancing debut, full of humour as well as sensitivity; a book for anyone who has lost their way and found themself.

Paperback

Published January 1, 2001

About the author

Judith Ryan Hendricks was born in San Jose, California, when Silicon Valley was the Santa Clara Valley, better known for orchards than for computer chips.
Armed with a degree in journalism, she worked as a journalist, copywriter, computer instructor, travel agent, waitress and baker before turning to fiction writing. Her experiences at the McGraw Street Bakery in Seattle led to her first novel, Bread Alone and the sequel, The Baker’s Apprentice. The third book in the series, Baker’s Blues, will be published in August 2015.
A life-long infatuation with the Southwest provided inspiration for Isabel’s Daughter and her fourth book, The Laws of Harmony. Hendricks’ fiction has been translated into 12 languages and distributed in more than 16 countries worldwide.
Her nonfiction has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle and Tiny Lights, A Journal of Personal Essay, Grand Gourmet in Italy and The London Sunday Express. Her short fiction has appeared in Woman’s Weekly in Britain and AMERICAN GIRLS ON THE TOWN, an anthology, in the U.S. and U.K.
She lives in New Mexico with husband Geoff and dog Blue.