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Recipe for a perfect wife : a novel / Karma Brown.
In this 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.
In her suburban house, Alice Hale finds an old cookbook and becomes captivated by the cookbook's previous owner: 1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. When she discovers that Nellie left clues about her own life within the cookbook's pages - and in a mysterious series of unsent letters - she quickly realizes that the housewife's secrets may have been anything but harmless. As she uncovers a more sinister side to Nellie's marriage and with pressure mounting in her own marriage, Alice realizes that to protect herself she must harbour and hatch a few secrets of her own.
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- ISBN: 9780735236240 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 322 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : Viking, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. 7 Thrillers (Fiction) |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Bowen Island Public Library | F BRO (Text) | 30947000597530 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
