A Sweet Enemies-To-Lovers Baking Story With Heart
A contemporary Irish YA romance, this follows ambitious baker Carrie Quinn after disaster throws her together with rival Dara Harte. Full of competition, chemistry and complicated home lives, it is a warm, satisfying story about finding common ground while chasing a dream.
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A Sweet Enemies-To-Lovers Baking Story With Heart
A contemporary Irish YA romance, this follows ambitious baker Carrie Quinn after disaster throws her together with rival Dara Harte. Full of competition, chemistry and complicated home lives, it is a warm, satisfying story about finding common ground while chasing a dream.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Love contemporary Irish fiction with romance and ambition
- Enjoy rivals-to-allies stories with plenty of chemistry
- Want a baking competition setting full of pressure and possibility
- Like warm, fast-moving fiction with heart and humour
Sieve. Measure. Mix … Win
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?
- About The Author
- Méabh McDonnell was born in Dublin and grew up in Loughrea, County Galway. She has worked with the Clare People newspaper as sub-editor and children's books reviewer, and founded and edits 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 and son in the Galway countryside next door to a castle. Her 2025 novel, Any Way You Slice It, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Teen and Young Adult Book of the Year 2025. In 2024, her novel Into the Witchwood won the School Library Group of the Literacy Association of Ireland Great Reads Award.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781788495820
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The O'Brien Press, (29 September 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 343
- Weight
- 282 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 196 x 129 x 21.5 mm
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