Product Description

'Toast. You know when you're trying to make it and you just can't get it right? It's too light or too soft, then totally burnt. Do you try to scrape off the black? Do you throw it away or do you just eat it? Up until now, I ate the burnt toast ! then I hit forty.' The best-selling inspirational memoir from your favourite desperate housewife. It took Teri Hatcher a divorce, the experience of single motherhood, a parade of bad dates, a stalled career and a memorable fortieth birthday to realize that she didn't want to spend another decade preparing herself for the next disaster. Burnt Toast is the heartfelt, funny, poignant and inspiring account of Teri's jagged route to happiness. Teri reveals her life in unexpected ways, in the hopes of keeping other women from eating the burnt toast, and explains why you'll never get a second chance if you don't open yourself up to the possibility.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39976 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
'!poignant!' Mail on Sunday '!inspirational!' Hello '!Hatcher takes an unblinking look at how an international screen siren becomes a hopeless loser in love ! lively, entertaining and often moving ! ' Daily Express You get a real sense of who Teri is and you really like her for it. Self-deprecating, funny, honest and constantly working on herself, her book says to the rest of us 'This is what I'm learning about living as a single mother, woman, human being -- maybe you'll find it useful, too.' And you do.' Eve 'A funny, frank and indeed, inspiring acount of how it's never too late to turn your life around.' Cambridge Style

Mail on Sunday
'...poignant...'

About the Author
Born and raised in California, Teri Hatcher got into show business when she accompanied a friend to an audition for The Love Boat. After roles on MacGyver and Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, she fell out of the public eye only to return as Susan Mayer on the huge ABC hit Desperate Housewives. She won a Golden Globe and a SAG award for her performance, as well as widespread adoration, before the show's first season was even over. She lives in Los Angeles.

Customer Reviews

I'd like to toast Teri Hatcher!
Teri is written a funny, honest, entertaining and moving book with some real pearls of wisdom in its pages. At its core is a message: if you're happy, it doesn't follow that you make someone else unhappy. If you refuse the burnt toast, it doesn't mean someone else has to eat it. Simple, but we need to be reminded of this and Ms Hatcher does it without preaching (well OK she does preach a bit but we hardly notice and she always apologises for it). I was captivated by this real page-turner and I felt I'd learned something from it - quite a lot in fact. I'd recommend it to you. Cheers, Teri!

Fantastic read to make you think
I loved, LOVED this book. Its good to know that even someone as rich and famous as Teri Hatcher has to agonise over the simplest of things. Its funny, honest and at times forces you to do some much needed soul searching for your own happiness and then shift your expectations. Definitly something I would recommend to people who find even simple things that life throws at them difficult to accept and deal with. It certainly help change the way i think and feel. Well done Teri, its certainly a fantastic read that makes you think that much deeper.

Excellent read
Was a bit sceptical about this book havent really seen her in much not really a desperate housewife fan but my god i think i love this woman. How down to earth funny and so like us can a person be.The same worries i have life, love, weight, and just about everything is talked about in this book truly a great read that i couldnt put down. Fabulous!!!