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RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE
When Alice Hale moves to the New York suburbs she finds a vintage cookbook buried in a box in the old
home's basement and becomes captivated with the cookbook's previous owner. It had belonged to 1950s
housewife Nellie Murdoch, who lived in the same house and left clues to her life throughout the cookbook's pages and within a series of letters penned to her mother that were mysteriously never sent.
Soon Alice discovers what Nellie was hiding and learns that while baked Alaska and meatloaf five ways may seem harmless, Nellie's secret was anything but. Dissatisfied with her own marriage and losing her grip on reality one retro recipe at a time, Alice will have to decide thanks to the old house, the cookbook and Nellie's decades-long-held secret how far she's willing to go to get the life she wants.
In a departure from her usual tear-jerking and emotive women's fiction, internationally bestselling author Karma Brown has written a compelling page-turner a domestic noir treatment of marriage in which a vintage cookbook and an old house connect across the decades a reluctant, modern housewife with a tenuous grip on reality to a 1950s housewife with a sinister secret, proving you can never really know what goes on behind closed doors.
KARMA BROWN is an award-winning journalist and author of the bestsellers Come Away With Me, The Choices We Make, and In This Moment. In addition to her novels, Brown's writing has appeared in publications such as SELF, Redbook, Canadian Living, Today's Parent, and Chatelaine.
home's basement and becomes captivated with the cookbook's previous owner. It had belonged to 1950s
housewife Nellie Murdoch, who lived in the same house and left clues to her life throughout the cookbook's pages and within a series of letters penned to her mother that were mysteriously never sent.
Soon Alice discovers what Nellie was hiding and learns that while baked Alaska and meatloaf five ways may seem harmless, Nellie's secret was anything but. Dissatisfied with her own marriage and losing her grip on reality one retro recipe at a time, Alice will have to decide thanks to the old house, the cookbook and Nellie's decades-long-held secret how far she's willing to go to get the life she wants.
In a departure from her usual tear-jerking and emotive women's fiction, internationally bestselling author Karma Brown has written a compelling page-turner a domestic noir treatment of marriage in which a vintage cookbook and an old house connect across the decades a reluctant, modern housewife with a tenuous grip on reality to a 1950s housewife with a sinister secret, proving you can never really know what goes on behind closed doors.
KARMA BROWN is an award-winning journalist and author of the bestsellers Come Away With Me, The Choices We Make, and In This Moment. In addition to her novels, Brown's writing has appeared in publications such as SELF, Redbook, Canadian Living, Today's Parent, and Chatelaine.
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