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When Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books, they discover a mutual love of cookery and food. Their friendship blossoms against the backdrop of Jackson's colorful, but ultimately unsatisfying, love life and Eve's tense relationship with her soon-to-be married daughter. As each of them offers, from behind the veils of semi-anonymity and distance, wise and increasingly affectionate counsel to the other, they both begin to confront their problems and plan a celebratory meeting in Paris--a meeting that Eve fears can never happen.
My thoughts:
A lovely book that was just so well written. The kind of prose that just flows, and you do not know why, but it's quite lovely.
It's the story of Eve who has always stayed in the background. Shy, bullied by her own mother, and with a rocky relationship with her daughter. Izzy whom I first liked at the end. When it all came together, forgiveness and understanding.
And it's the story of Jack, a writer struggling to write, who loves food, and who goes from woman to woman.
Last it is the story of how these two strike up a friendship through letters and even though they have never met they help each other out.
PS. there are recipes at the end, yay.
Conclusion:
I really can't put my finger on it, I started the book and just liked it from the first line. The good writing just pulled me in and did not let me go.
Cover
ok
A lovely book that was just so well written. The kind of prose that just flows, and you do not know why, but it's quite lovely.
It's the story of Eve who has always stayed in the background. Shy, bullied by her own mother, and with a rocky relationship with her daughter. Izzy whom I first liked at the end. When it all came together, forgiveness and understanding.
And it's the story of Jack, a writer struggling to write, who loves food, and who goes from woman to woman.
Last it is the story of how these two strike up a friendship through letters and even though they have never met they help each other out.
PS. there are recipes at the end, yay.
Conclusion:
I really can't put my finger on it, I started the book and just liked it from the first line. The good writing just pulled me in and did not let me go.
Cover
ok
Paperback, 240 pages
Published February 10th 2015 by Grand Central Publishing (first published 2014)
Fiction
Own
