In the 2018 story Alice Hale and her husband, Nate, are about to move from the city to the suburbs of New York. It has a domestic setting, it’s dual timeline and it has recipes! Recipe for a Perfect Wife has all the ingredients I like in a book. When Alice uncovers a more sinister, even dangerous, side to Nellie’s marriage, and has become increasingly dissatisfied with 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 a Baked Alaska may seem harmless, Nellie’s secrets may have been anything but. As Alice cooks her way through the past, she realizes that within the pages Nellie left clues about her life. But when she finds a vintage cookbook buried in the basement, she becomes captivated by its previous owner: 1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. When Alice Hale leaves a career 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. My thanks to Lucy Chamberlain from Legend Press for the place on the tour and for sending a copy of the book for review purposes. I’m sharing my thoughts about this book with you today. Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown.
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