55 pages • 1 hour read
The Golden Spoon
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Summary and Study Guide
Overview
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell chronicles the filming of what will become the final season of Bake Week, a fictional baking competition show loosely based on The Great British Bake-Off and similar series. Set at a manor house in rural Vermont that is also the childhood home of Bake Week’s creator, Betsy Martin, The Golden Spoon explores the complexities of fame and rivalry as they play out in front of television cameras and behind the scenes. The contestants struggle to impress the judges with their bakes and avoid being targeted by a mysterious saboteur, while also reflecting on their own pasts—and confronting the murder of Archie Morris, Bake Week’s new co-host.
This guide was written using the Simon and Schuster e-book edition, published in 2023.
Content Warning: The book and this guide contain references to sexual assault and harassment.
Plot Summary
The Golden Spoon opens with a prologue. Betsy Martin, creator, host, and judge of the popular baking competition Bake Week, ventures into the tent during a thunderstorm and discovers a dead body. The novel then flashes back to the press release issued two weeks earlier that had described the six contestants participating in the 10th season of Bake Week: Unlock all 55 pages of this Study Guide Plus, gain access to 8,900+ more expert-written Study Guides. Including features:
