Timing is Everything

Rose's Journey - Rose Edwards, well provided for, well cared for, principally raised by her grandmother as her mother works abroad. Rose is studying haute cuisine. On her mother's untimely death information becomes available which empowers her to find her father. Her current employer sees a cookery competition, for which she is eligible. Co-incidentally the judge, an eminent professional bears the same surname as her father. With a surge of emotion she enters the competition hoping to set out on the road of discovery that will lead her to the missing piece in her life's jigsaw, her father's identity.
She wins the competition. Her mantra: 'timing is everything'

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Secrets - A story of letting go when the time is right.
The Brooch - It was too late for Hilda and Marjorie to share their stories.
Scarlet woman - Till death us do part - but what is life?