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Book Review
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: July 2003
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About the Book
Peopled by the most singular and enchanting characters one is ever
likely to meet, this captivating novel transports us to a place where love
lurks in unexpected places and life holds the most delectable
surprises...
BLESSED ARE THE CHEESEMAKERS
Joseph Corrigan and Joseph Feehan, better known as Corrie and Fee, make
the finest Coolarney Blue cheese in the entire civilized world. But Corrie
still pines for his long-lost granddaughter, whisked away from her Ireland
home as a child by her gallivanting mother. At this very moment, in a
primitive hut on a remote South Seas island, his twenty-nine-year-old
granddaughter Abbey is getting ready to leave her irrigation-obsessed
husband after discovering that he has gone biblical with several of the
natives.
A continent away, Kit Stephens is struggling with the loss of his wife
and his career as a high-flying Wall Street broker. What this lonely,
hungover, and burned-out New Yorker needs is a miracle-fast. Where better
to find one than in a distant corner of Ireland, on a dairy farm run by
the unlikeliest pair ever to preside over a vat of unpasteurized curd?
As Abbey and Kit converge on Coolarney House in County Cork, they
discover a marvelous kingdom where something wonderful is always
fermenting…where pregnant, vegetarian dairymaids milk cows to "The Sound
of Music"…and where a cat named Jesus realizes she just isn't cut out for
motherhood. While Corrie and Fee zealously guard the secret of the
renowned Coolarney Blue and shelter an odd collection of whisky-soaked men
and brokenhearted women, a tantalizing mystery surfaces from the aromatic
depths of the factory. Soon Abbey and Kit will find out whether they have
what it takes to become master cheesemakers. And something more. For in
this magical place where wounds miraculously heal, falling in love is what
makes us come truly alive.
A book to delight your heart, taste buds, and funny bone, BLESSED
ARE THE CHEESEMAKERS is an irresistible tale about taking life's
spilled milk and turning it into the best cheese in the world.
About the Author
Sara-Kate Lynch has been a journalist for nearly 20 years working for radio stations and magazines in New Zealand, Sydney and London. Before she quit to write fiction she was the editor for New Zealand Woman's Weekly magazine and wrote a popular column which she published selected columns from in her book The Modern Girl's Guide to Life.
She lives in Queenstown which is a small lakeside town in the mountains of New Zealand's South Island. Her next novel will be about sourdough bread.
The Review
Not what I expected at all - after all - a story about cheese? C'mon. Funny, funny, funny. You'll find yourself laughing at this tale, and the colorful characters that inhabit the story. And I only found my stomach growling a couple of times! LOL
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