This is not at all what I was expecting, for some reason I was expecting a comical look at how an old cookbook could be wildly out of date and yet still relevant and while it did show that, it was not funny. It was dark and twisty and for that I think I like it even more that I would have done had it been what I was expecting.
The narrative switches between Nellie, a 1950s housewife who married a man she didn’t really know and Alice, a modern-day housewife, although this is down to being fired from her job and not through choice.
I enjoyed that the Nellie’s chapters started with a recipe and Alice’s started with quotes from old books, it made it easy to flip from one time and mind set to another. Using the quotes at the start of Alice’s chapters was very clever as you read them and think, ‘wow we have come so far’ and ‘ I can’t believe people used to think like that’ then you read her chapter and realise that actually we haven’t come that far at all!
There were a few twists in the book which I found very predictable but in no way did that ruin this for me as I was intrigued to find out how each of the twists played out.
Thank you to Legend Press and the Author for giving me a copy of this to review.