Finally she's packed off to live with foster parents, theĭaffy but good-hearted Evie and Bert (recipe: Butterscotch Chow Mein Noodle Cookies). Stops disasters from happening to Primrose: she gets hit by a truck, sets fire to the class guinea pig and has the tip of a finger sliced off in an accident. Jots down recipes on an old memo pad on which she's found her mother's instructions for making Carrots in an Apricot Glaze a recipe concludes each chapter of the book).

Luckily, someone befriends the girl: Kate Bowzer, the owner of a town restaurant, who serves everything on a waffle because ''she liked to give the customer a little something extra.'' Miss Bowzer teaches Primrose to cook (the youngster Real estate and fending off the advances of Miss Honeycut that Primrose is left pretty much on her own. Although he decides to quit the military and care for his niece, he is so busy getting into Knocking around in the Navy has not exactly prepared Uncle Jack for parenthood (his idea of supper is four TV dinners - one for Primrose and three for himself). Uncle, whom the Coal Harbour town council tracks down and appoints as her guardian for want of someone better. Leaving the fate of their daughter, 11-year-old Primrose Squarp, in the hands of a dubious cast of characters in Polly Horvath's new novel, ''Everything on a Waffle.'' There's Miss Perfidy,Īn old baby sitter who smells of mothballs and is losing her marbles Miss Honeycut, a tiresome school guidance counselor who talks exclusively about herself and her travels and Primrose's strapping, happy-go-lucky A fisherman is late bringing in his boat, and his wife rushes out in a skiff to find him. Typhoon off the coast of British Columbia.

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath