The Food of Love by Amanda Prowse - #TuesdayTeaser

 Hello and welcome to this week's Tuesday Teaser. The place where we take a sneaky peek at a book that has caught my eye.

This week we are looking at The Food of Love by Amanda Prowse.

I am already a fan of Amanda's writing and I have reviewed a few of them on the blog already. In fact, you can read my reviews of The Day She Came Back by clicking here

However, The Food of Love is one that I have not got around to reading yet but is beckoning me. How about you? Have you read any of Amanda's lovely books? And have you read this one?

The Blurb

Freya Braithwaite knows she is lucky. Nineteen years of marriage to a man who still warms her soul and two beautiful teenage daughters to show for it: confident Charlotte and thoughtful Lexi. Her home is filled with love and laughter.

But when Lexi’s struggles with weight take control of her life, everything Freya once took for granted falls apart, leaving the whole family with a sense of helplessness that can only be confronted with understanding, unity and, above all, love.

In this compelling and heart-wrenching work by bestselling author Amanda Prowse, one ordinary family tackles unexpected difficulties and discovers that love can find its way through life’s darkest moments.

The Beginning

Prologue

The sun slowly casting it's fire-coloured rays over everything it touched as it sank was one of the most beautiful things Freya had ever seen. She would never forget the sight of pelicans sitting on the Florida shoreline like prehistoric time travellers, masterful and breathtaking, as they balanced on poles rising up from the seabed, stretching their immense wings in the scarlet remains of the day.

Lockie and the girls had earlier fished from the dock - catching nothing but each other's crossed fishing lines. The fun, however, had been in the anticipation, any disappointment now quashed by the sampling of fine gelato as they strolled the streets of old Naples, window shopping as day turned to night and the sun pulled their tanned skin taut on their weary bones. Charlotte, already becoming a lady at nine, nibbled daintily at her single-scoop cone, while Lexi was fully focused on balancing her towering three scoops, as if unwilling to forfeit a single bite.

Freya laughed at her seven-year-old. "Goodness me, Lex, carry on at this rate and we'll have to put you in the hold on the flight home; you'll never fit in the seat!"

As they wandered onto the long pier at the end of this golden day, Freya knew this family vacation would be crystallised in memory, there for her to dip into when the cold, grey sky of a British morning threatened to pull the happy from her heart and the spring from her step.

"So can I, Mum? Can I?"

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I wonder what she is asking her mum? Any ideas?