Mildred pierce book review5/20/2023 ![]() But while business is booming, Mildred's personal life is not, leading to a regrettable confrontation between her and daughter Veda. Soon she is operating her own chicken and pie restaurant, and then other eateries too. Caught in the grip of the Great Depression, she bakes cakes for a couple of dollars a pop. ![]() With Ida's help, Mildred, a talented baker, begins selling her homemade pies at the diner. Her husband, a smallish man and barely solvent real estate developer, is having a fling with a neighbor. Searching for work during the Depression proves troublesome until Mildred meets a waitress named Ida, who works at a local diner. Cain's classic 1941 novel, the five-part miniseries stars Kate Winslet as young mother Mildred Pierce, who struggles to make a new life for her and her two daughters after divorcing her husband. ![]() Based on the title character introduced in James M. ![]()
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