Baking with Mary Berry

I picked up this cookbook because I love Great British Bake Off and am particularly smitten with Mary Berry. There are lots of recipes in here for tasty treats, along with accompanying photographs of said treats. Instructions seem to be written out fairly clearly, but I can't speak accurately to that because I haven't made anything from this cookbook yet. There is a section at the beginning that serves as a crash course in baking essentials like how to make a shortcrust pastry, making meringues, making sponge cake, etc., which I found really useful. My main complaint is that there are hardly any blurbs to accompany the recipes – nothing about the background or history of each recipe or suggestions for serving or substitutions. Half the fun of cookbooks are the recipe blurbs, and I was really hoping to find some in Mary Berry's trademark voice: extremely proper with a hint of sass. I didn't find much of that here, but still found some good recipes just the same.