As Alice cooks her way through the past, she realizes that Nellie left clues about her life amidst the recipes–including a mysterious series of unsent letters penned to her mother. But after she finds a vintage cookbook buried in a box in the old home’s basement, she becomes captivated by the book’s previous owner, a 1950s housewife named Nellie Murdoch. When Alice Hale reluctantly leaves New York and a career in publicity to follow her husband to the suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house. Through her exploration of the past, Brown delivers a timely message about the state of marriage today, and the many ways in which women continue to fight for control over their future.” -Quill & Quire “Hidden behind the veneer of a domestic novel, Recipe for a Perfect Wife doubles as a slow-burning thriller with a satisfying conclusion. “Brown kills it her latest is a winner so captivating that fans of modern and old-fashioned stories about women could easily read it in one day.” -Library Journal, starred review An engaging and suspenseful look at how the patriarchy shaped women’s lives in the 1950s and continues to do so today.” -Kirkus “Brown ratchets up the tension and pulls off a surprising-but satisfying-ending. “Fans of Daisy Jones and the Six will take to this new novel about women taking control.” -The Globe and Mail “A time-hopping, dark domestic mystery, sprinkled with a dash of female empowerment and a few vintage baking tips.” -Toronto Star The most important? Take those trappings you resent so much - cooking, gardening, bearing children - embrace them, then wield them like weapons.” -New York Times Book Review And it turns out Nellie has a lot more to teach Alice about being a wife and a woman than how to bake a good batch of cookies.
“It’s easy to keep turning the pages as we toggle back and forth between Alice and Nellie, who - breaking news - has a far more complicated life than a stack of Ladies’ Home Journals would lead Alice to believe. Refinery29’s “11 Books To Stay Inside With This Winter”īarnes and Noble’s January “Books of the Month” New York Post’s “The best books of the week” The Globe and Mail’s “36 reads to get you through till spring”
Happy book birthday to the mass market edition of RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE by Karma Brown, out today from Penguin Canada!ĬBC’s “spring reading list: 40 great books to read this season”
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