BAKING ARCHIE is a romantic, quirky comedy novel.
Aspiring television writer BEATRIX is dying for a bit of excitement, but her life is punctuated by the ordinary. Namely in the shape of her eccentric parents, her melodramatic actor friends, and her own endless Doctor Who fantasies.
She is stunned when the BBC offer her a sparkling new career, an office overlooking Big Ben and LEE, a brand new handsome writing partner.
But when her sitcom gets cancelled, the office overrun with mice, and Lee turns out to be a misogynistic bastard, she soon finds herself dreaming again of escape, counting the hours until the weekend just like old times. To further complicate things, a scandal erupts involving her art-teaching flatmate SUE and down to earth but seemingly underage life model ARCHIE, who also happens to have an alarmingly powerful crush on Beatrix.
Things start to look up when Beatrix dares to romance famous sexy lothario comedian RUBEN, and her actor friends take her adapted Chekhov play to the Edinburgh Festival. Seduced again by the promise of excitement, and a handy chance to escape, Beatrix abandons her commitments to both Lee and the BBC and absconds to Edinburgh, losing herself in an exciting whirlwind of absinthe, sex and debauchery.
But Beatrix is slammed back into reality when not only is she followed by all she was trying to escape, but she loses her job at the BBC, and her mad father somehow manages to be seriously injured in a freak sleepwalking incident. Beatrix returns home to face her mistakes and in the shape of Archie, discovers that ordinary can be exciting too.