This was a brilliant read. As soon as I started reading this book I just knew I was going to love it. Highly recommended

I really enjoyed this book,the book flowed well and loved the characters.really enjoyed the storyline.

Thank you Chrissie for joining me on my blog. Loosing a parent is definitely one of the largest things that can happen in a person's life and it takes a long time to come to terms with. I remember when my dad died suddenly, he was only 52, and it hit me for six. I hope that you are starting to come to terms with your loss and remember all the happy times you spent together.

The Worse Case Scenario Cookery Club is a great read, I really enjoyed all the characters and the storyline is believable and a really enjoyable book. The cooking scenes are fantastic and the food sounds mouthwatering.

Hilariously funny, romantic comedy! Would read this again!

I've forgotten to write my review on this.. Oops.
Well I really liked this, it's funny and just what you need to laugh out loud. We have three thrifts all different in their own right but the main character is Liz whose husband left her a year ago for the younger sexier blogger.
I can't tell you about the story as I really want readers to read it, there's cooking involved to make your mouth water, very funny moments you can't not laugh out loud at. Brilliant wrote.

I adored this book! Absolutely amazing characters who I would to be friends with, delicious food and a bit of drama make this a fab read! One of Chrissie's best!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for an advanced copy of this book. In the quaint seaside town of Newbay, a beginner's cookery course is starting. And three very different students have signed up...

Liz's husband has left her for a twenty-something clean-eating blogger, and she's determined to show the world - and her daughter - she's just as capable in the kitchen. John, newly widowed after fifty years of marriage, can't live on sympathy lasagnes forever. To thirty-year-old workaholic Bella, the course is a welcome escape from her high-pressure job. Their only common ground: between them, they can barely boil an egg!

Enter talented chef Alex, who is determined to introduce his pupils to the comforts of cuisine. As Liz, John and Bella encounter various disasters in the kitchen, the unlikely trio soon form a fast friendship. Their culinary skills might be catastrophic - but could the cookery club have given them a recipe for happiness?

Great characters, hilarious in places and a very easy to read book.

I love reading books by this author. This one didn't disappoint me. Everything in it laughs love fun

I adore Chrissie's books and look forward to devouring a new one as soon as they're released. This book was funny, touching and sweet. The characters come alive and you find yourself caring for what happens to them and hoping for a happy ending for them.

An amusing warm romantic story, involving Liz whose husband has left her for a younger new age blogger, with a stroppy teenage daughter to contend with she is consumed by bitterness and low self esteem. Bella a solicitor always on duty and John a 70 year old, recently widowed who although has outside interests still feels terrible lonely. They all meet up at a cookery class given by Alex a talented chef trying to get his life on track. We learn about each character as the story progresses and how the cookery classes begin to soothe and inspire them all.
A light read which had me smiling, no great laugh out loud moments but it was entertaining and enjoyable.
My thanks to net galley and publisher for opportunity to review this book.

Firstly, it is wonderful to see a new offering from the talented Chrissie Manby - and such an enjoyable one. This has all of the right ingredients for an award winning recipe, producing prefect results. Characters are well drawn, well rounded and likeable and the tale moves along at perfect pace. It's an uplifting read that will make you smile - a lot! If spirits need a lift then look no further! Recommended.

A really heartwarming book with lovely characters brought together by a cookery club.
Alex decides to run a cookery club for people wanting to learn new skills and although only 3 people sign up to the course they have a great time getting to know each other and each week they learn to cook something new.
Liz's husband left her a year ago for a young health blogger and she stalks the blog looking for new updates. She has a teenage daughter who can make life difficult at times and she also has an overweight dog. Some of the scenes with the dog are so funny.
John is recently widowed and wants to stop the local ladies thinking that cooking him some meals will lead to new relationships.
Bella has a really busy life working as a solicitor and is often called out to the police station for clients including after every cookery session. She grew up with her father running an Italian restaurant and Alex who runs the club hopes to provide 'food memories' for all the 'students'. Liz's food memory provides more of a challenge for him.
It really is a lovely book full of soul searching, secrets, personal histories, new friendships and burgeoning romances.
I would love to return to the cookery club!

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. I love this author, she makes me laugh and smile. This book was no exception. Well worth a read

Love this author. Have read quite a few of her books now and glad to say ive not been disappointed by any. Great book to lose yourself in. Nice mix of characters. Truly light hearted and uplifting read. It was in good humour also.

Before I start swooning over how much of a wonderful book this is, I would just like to say that I'm so glad I got the opportunity to come across Chrissie Manby through this tour and will no doubt be returning to read the rest of her books!

The Worst Case Scenario Cookery Club focuses on Liz, John and Bella. Three totally different people, with the same aspirations. Although it focuses on all three, Liz is most definitely the main character of the book as her story is told the most throughout.

Liz certainly isn't having the luckiest of lives; her husband has left her for a much younger blogger, her teenage daughter doesn't want to spend time with her anymore and her dog is now incredibly overweight. Liz becomes obsessed with the blogger who stole her husband and constantly stalks her blog filled with healthy food recipes and life advice. Whilst she poisons her mind with such high life expectations, Liz comforts her and her dog, Ted, with the unhealthiest of foods including a lot of ready meals; this leads up to Ted being signed up for Waggy Weight Loss Club by Doctor Evan Thomas. An epiphany happens when Alex, a young chef, introduces her to a cooking course he is opening, which eventually includes all three people; Liz, Bella and John. With an overweight dog, a daughter who refuses to eat anything that isn't vegetarian and a healthy guru blogger brain-washing her husband; Liz decided it was time to learn how to cook.

I do think Liz is such an incredible character to read about, but we also have to give credit to Bella and John who have bigger roles to the story than you may think. Bella's story shows us so much kindness and acceptance, as she leads the busy life of a public defence lawyer; especially with one certain character who you may find yourself soften up to. Her story with food is also much deeper than Liz and John's, as her father was a chef. John has a much more simpler story-line to begin with, his wife passed away leaving him to not be able to cook for himself, however, his story becomes a lot more interesting as the book goes on.

This is such a heart-warming story with characters you can't possibly hate , except for Liz's husband, Ian. The rest of them bring so much to the book and with only small roles, Saskia and Ted really do bring so much comedic moments. The food they make as well is most definitely mouth-watering and I now have the sudden urge to make (and eat) Liz's childhood dessert! Chef Shelby is about to happen! I flew through this book as soon as I had started it and as I said before, I can not wait to find the time to dig in to more of Chrissy's stories... I know they'll for sure be a treat just as this one was!

This is a fantastic read, brilliant group of characters that are so easy to connect with. The story is beautiful and really cosy.
The food just made my mouth water, yum yum! Wish there was a cookery club where I live.

Bunting, dogs and cakes on the cover, Chrissie Manby has a lot to live up to here. No need to worry she has cooked up a fine tale.

We join the story just as forty-something Liz is left by her husband for Brittney, the twenty-something clean eating blogger. Not only is her rival half her age, she also cooks. Liz has never done anything more adventurous than put a ready meal in the microwave. She gets no sympathy from her 15 year old daughter Saskia, who thinks that Liz has let herself go. At least she can rely on her dog Ted for solace.

Liz comfort eats and so does Ted, that leads to him being taken to the vet and being sent to Doggy Boot Camp for obese dogs. Every dog owner seems to mirror the problems of their pets, you know what they say about dogs looking their owners. The realisation that Ted’s weight problem might be down to her prompts Liz to enrol in a cookery class and now the fun can begin.

Alex has set up the cookery class in the hope of making a new beginning but only three people enrol. Seventy something widower John, young lawyer Bella and Liz. As the book unfolds we get to know these four pretty well. Their pasts are revealed drip by drip. We learn that you do not need to salt an aubergine, there are no sour juices to be got rid off, cooking aubergines is simple.

Love simmers away on the back burner. Will Liz find romance? Will her errant husband repent of his ways and leave Brittney the Blogger? Will Ted graduate from Doggy Boot Camp with honours? No recipes are forthcoming in THE WORST CASE SCENARIO COOKERY CLUB,

but the food is so lovingly described that I felt that I could cook the dishes mentioned.

Chrissie Manby has written more than twenty novels and THE WORST CASE SCENARIO COOKERY CLUB shows that she is still as fresh as ever and able to cook up a good story.

Three very different characters: Dental hygienist Liz whose husband has left her for a much younger model and mum to a fifteen year old who blames her for everything; solicitor Bella who is so devoted to her work it leaves her no time for anything else especially not finding a man; and John, recently widowed and surviving on food parcels donated by his friends. The one thing they have in common is wanting to learn how to cook properly, so when talented chef Alex starts up a beginners cookery course in their home town of Newbay, they all sign up and very soon this very different group of people become firm friends but will learning to cook bring them a recipe for happiness?

I really enjoyed this book. The main characters are a joy to read and the book flows well. It's so easy to pick up where you left off and I read this book over the course of a weekend. Warning though the descriptions of food will make you hungry! This is only the second book I've read by this author and I really want to read more. I would award it 4 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Hodder & Stoughton and the author for the chance to review.

What a wonderfully lighthearted and uplifting novel by Chrissie Manby. Chrissie has definitely whipped up another enjoyable story about love, friendship and life. The four characters all have their own story and I love that we get to read about all of their lives and that you get to connect with them all individually.

Another thing that I absolutely adored about this book - was of course the food! If you've read my blog before then you'll know that I cannot resist a book revolving around food. And the cover and the title of the book totally drew me in. The food that the beginners learn to cook sound mouth-wateringly good. Making you wish that you were a part of this class!

I've only ever read one other story by Chrissie Manby and although I enjoyed that one - I found myself enjoying this one even more and relating to the characters. I enjoyed the stories from start to end and couldn't put it down. The characters, although all very different in their own ways, all flowed together beautifully.

Overall, a really enjoyable story and one I couldn't put down. Thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher for a chance to read this novel, which I have reviewed honestly.

A really nice light and enjoyable read, great characters and a lovely plot line - there were the quirky touches of humour that Chrissie Manby always delivers so perfectly.
One of my favourite light authors that never fails to deliver a feel good read.