Perfect Meringues

It shouldn't have been like this. Being on television was meant to lead to fame and a glamorous social life. But for Lizzie Partridge forty-something divorced and TV cook on Midlands This Morning it meant dinners for one coping alone with an air-head adolescent daughter and following middle-aged men into corner shops pretending she needed a bottle of Lea & Perrins. Her good friend Louie - if only he wasn't gay - thought he knew what the trouble was: Lizzie was always on the wrong side of the glass looking in at other people's lives. True or not things for Lizzie were going to get a lot worse before they got better…