WILMINGTON — Bartleby's Books will host an event with Louise Miller, author of the just-published novel, “The City Baker's Guide to Country Living,” on Friday, Aug. 11, at 6:30 p.m., according to a news release.
Miller is a writer and pastry chef who lives and works in Boston. According to the release, she was born to two Teamsters, then raised in urban Boston until the age of eight, when she moved to a posh suburb where “she quickly learned that in order to survive she would have to lose her thick Boston accent. She still drops her r's when tired or angry.”
Miller has been a baker/pastry chef for more than 20 years. She has worked in an exclusive golf club, the private kitchen of a major investment firm, a macrobiotic restaurant where she could use only maple syrup and barley malt as sweeteners, and a kosher gourmet shop. She is currently the pastry chef of The Union Club of Boston, a historic private club formed in 1863, where she has worked for the past 13 years.
A lifelong lover of reading, Louise began her first attempt at novel writing in 2009. She received a scholarship in 2012 to attend GrubStreet's Novel Incubator program, a year-long workshop for novelists, where she worked on the final revisions of her novel.
According to the news release, “The City Baker's Guide to Country Living” is a novel about a big-city baker who discovers the true meaning of home - and that sometimes the best things are found when you didn't even know you were looking.