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It started with a broken oven. A broken oven and a stupid boy.
For Carrie Quinn, baking isn’t just a hobby: it’s her future. Winning the Castlecreagh baking competition and becoming best young pastry chef in the country is the first step towards her dream. But when she and Dara Harte, handsome pastry prodigy and Carrie’s sworn nemesis, are both disqualified from the competition, it seems like her future has crumbled. Unless the pair can find a way to bake together. Can they rise above their rivalry and complicated home lives long enough to succeed? Or are they a disaster waiting to happen, any way you slice it?
Author Méabh McDonnell was born in Dublin and grew up in Loughrea, Co. Galway. She has worked with the Clare People newspaper as sub-editor and children’s books reviewer and founded cindersmagazine.com. She has an MA in journalism and is the Children’s Book Manager in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway. She lives with her husband in the Galway countryside next door to a castle. Her debut children’s book, Into the Witchwood, was a Winner at the Great Reads Award 2024 (School Library Group of the Literacy Association of Ireland).