Olivia Potts

A moving, heartwarming and exquisitely funny memoir about one woman's journey from criminal barrister to pâtissière. Olivia Potts' mother died when she was just twenty-five. Stricken with grief, she did something life-changing and rather ridiculous—she gave up a high-flying legal career to study at the notoriously difficult Le Cordon Bleu, despite not being able to cook. No one ever told...

'This is, quite frankly, my dream book. Buttery bliss from cover to cover' — Nigella Lawson 'The last word on butter. Everyone who cooks needs this book' — Diana Henry Swirled into hot sugar to create a silken, smoky caramel, or browned until nutty and speckled before being folded through cake batter or buttercream. Dotted onto vegetables before roasting or braising, stirred...