Description
When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love. Thinking she is merely helping Edward’s daughter--who lives far away and has asked her to check in on her nonagenarian dad in New York--Isabel has no idea that the man in the kitchen baking the sublime roast chicken and light-as-air apricot soufflé will end up changing her life. As Edward and Isabel meet weekly for the glorious dinners that Edward prepares, he shares so much more than his recipes for apple galette or the perfect martini, or even his tips for deboning poultry. Edward is teaching Isabel the luxury of slowing down and taking the time to think through everything she does, to deconstruct her own life, cutting it back to the bone and examining the guts, no matter how messy that proves to be.
Cara Kuhic @yesenia.luettgen_883
August 30, 2021
4
Wow. Mesmerizing from beginning to end. This story was well-written, and vibrant. Once I started, I could not put it down. I read the entire book while en route on a trip, and had it done in roughly three hours. You know the type of book that when you get close to the end, you begin to feel sad, because you don't want the story to end, but you can't put it down? This is THAT book.