Bianca Scidone: 2 books

When Gloria Hobart decides to set up a local cooking class to fill in some spare time, little does she realise how much it will change the lives of her six new students. Friendships will be made and broken as they navigate marital problems, illness and loneliness. Yet each week they return to learn...

Hillridge Rise is a quiet street, in a quiet neighbourhood. Everybody looks out for one another. Then one long, hot summer, the long time residents of number four move out. And the new neighbours move in. Tensions rise as the heat bubbles over. Will everyone survive the summer?