Karma Brown has long been a favorite of mine and this book is proof she just keeps getting better and better. " Recipe for a Perfect Wife is a bold, intoxicating, page-turner. Thoughtful, clever, and surprisingly dark." - Booklist The pacing is brisk, the characters are appealing, and both time lines are equally well realized. " excels at bringing the complexities of women's lives to the page, and her latest novel questions how much has really changed for women over the last 60 years. With plentiful historical details (including recipes and depressingly hilarious marriage advice), the pages devoted to Nellie come to life.An engaging and suspenseful look at how the patriarchy shaped women's lives in the 1950s and continues to do so today." - Kirkus Reviews "Brown skillfully alternates between Alice's modern world and Nellie's in the 1950s. When Alice uncovers a more sinister-even dangerous-side to Nellie's marriage, and has become increasingly dissatisfied with the mounting pressures in her own relationship, she begins to take control of her life and protect herself with a few secrets of her own.
Soon Alice learns that while baked Alaska and meatloaf five ways may seem harmless, Nellie's secrets may have been anything but.
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.
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. 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. 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 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.
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