Recipe for a perfect wife : a novel

The Resource Recipe for a perfect wife : a novel

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Recipe for a perfect wife : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Karma Brown

Language

eng

Summary

A dual narrative in which a woman finds a cookbook buried in the basement of her new home and becomes captivated with the cookbook's previous owner, a 1950s housewife. Dissatisfied with her own life, she becomes absorbed in learning the story--and the secrets--of the last woman who lived in her house
Alice Hale left a career in publicity to become a writer and follow her husband to the New York suburbs. Unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house, she is captivated by a vintage cookbook found buried in a box in the old home's basement, and by the cookbook's previous owner. As Alice cooks her way through 1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch's past, she realizes that within the cookbook's pages are clues about Nellie's life-- including a unsent letters penned to her mother. Uncovering a more sinister side to Nellie's marriage, Alice begins to take control of her life-- and protect herself with a few secrets of her own. -- adapted from jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR9199.4.B758536

LC item number

R43 2020

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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