Tummy Love

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About Tummy Love

Product Description The UK’s favourite celebrity children’s cook, Melanie Henriksen, known to her millions of fans on TV as the ‘kiddie cook’, returns home with her husband Harry Maloney after a successful book launch in London, to find their precious youngest daughter has vanished into thin air with the new eighteen-year-old babysitter, Darius Sorokin. The glamorous couple’s perfect life and happy family of four is shattered in an instant as the desperate search for their youngest child twists and turns in the glare of the media spotlight, in this fast paced, gripping and heart rending tale of a mother’s love and loss and the cruellest betrayal of trust. About the Author Sarah Orton was born in London in 1964, to the eminent consultant orthodontist Harry S Orton OBE and Shelagh, a mathematician and practice manager. The family of six moved to a rambling house in Surbiton, Surrey in the late sixties and Sarah was raised on what she affectionately calls the “original set of ‘The Good Life’” with animals on the lawn, a huge kitchen garden and the cupboards filled with pickles and jams. As Sarah’s father treated his orthodontic patients in the front of the house (with pop stars and princes amongst them), her mother rustled up a fantastic meal every evening using all the home produce, which sparked Sarah’s lifelong love affair with home cooking. Sarah also discovered a natural talent for “stringing words together” at a very early age and after graduating from catering college, Sarah wrote a recipe book in her first job and then went on to train to become a journalist. She quickly shone and aged just 23 became the youngest editor at Reed Business Publishing in the 1980s, editing a baking magazine. Sarah set up her PR agency 25 years ago with her husband and has worked with many of today’s well known celebrity chefs including Raymond Blanc, Nigella Lawson, Gordon Ramsay and Kent’s very own Richard Phillips and Gary Rhodes. She has also worked for several global and iconic visual artists including Art Attack’s creator Neil Buchanan, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood. Her work has been published in numerous national newspapers and magazines and she edited one of the leading art magazines for several years. Sarah has lived in rural Kent with her husband and two children, Sophie and Harry, for the past 22 years and describes the children as her “raison d’être”.

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