Recipe for a Perfect Wife

✍ Scribed by Karma Brown

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group;Dutton
• Year: 2019;2020
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 237 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1524744948

✦ Synopsis

**In this captivating dual narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home's previous owner, a quintessential 1950s housewife. As she discovers remarkable parallels between this woman's life and her own, it causes her to question the foundation of her own relationship with her husband --and what it means to be a wife fighting for her place in a patriarchal society. **
When Alice Hale leaves a career in publicity to become a writer and follows her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house. But when she finds a vintage cookbook buried in a box in the old home's basement, she becomes captivated by the cookbook's previous owner--1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. As Alice cooks her way through the past, she realizes that within the cookbook's pages Nellie left clues about her life--including a mysterious series of unsent letters penned to her mother.
Soon Alice learns...