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Ideal for foodies, this take on female friendship in the age of TikTok and Instagram is sure to leave many feeling deliciously satisfied. Introverted cook Isabella loses her job at Comestibles after messing up a cooking video, and stumbles into a ghostwriting job for mercurial actress Molly Babcock. This also forces her to re-examine her relationship with her flatmate Owen, the son of the media mogul who got her the ghostwriting deal.

While falling in love with sous-chef Gabe and trying to re-interest the wild actress in the recipes that Molly's mother lovingly curated before her death, Isabella also has to rewrite the script of her relationship with her own mother, whose hoarding and compulsive cooking is out of control. Well-paced with some terrific set-pieces, this is one of those 'would be a great Netflix series,' books that nonetheless stands up on its own, and it's always refreshing to see a male writer give us a non-cringey take on female characters. Some great jokes too!

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