Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

by KateKerrigan (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $4.24

  New York food writer, Tressa returns from honeymoon worried that she has married her impossibly handsome husband, Dan out of panic rather than love. In 1930s, Ireland her grandmother, Bernadine, has wed James, the quiet and unexciting local schoolteacher, after her family is unable to raise a dowry to allow her to marry her true love, Michael. On her own wedding day, Tressa is offered her grandmother's diaries and hidden in the pages finds unexpected comfort, learning - amongst the timeless recipes for jam, soda bread and rhubarb tart - of an age-old narrative about her grandparents, her mother, and ultimately herself. For, what she discovers is how to capture the perfect marriage. 'A hybrid of Anne Tyler, Sex in the City and the Avoca Cook Book, Recipes is grown-up and reflective...makes some excellent observations about the nature of love and happiness and how difficult it can be for a woman to adapt to marriage - Sunday Independent . This book is one to keep. Anyone who reads it will return to it, time and time again. - Ireland on Sunday .

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $3.28

  They say there is no such thing as a perfect marriage, but of course there is. A perfect marriage is where two people live together for most of their lives until death separates them. What there is no such thing as is an easy marriage. And when it comes to love, people have somehow come around to equating love with ease. New York food writer Tressa returns from honeymoon worried that she has married her impossibly handsome new husband Dan out of late-thirties panic instead of love. In 1930's Ireland, her grandmother, Bernadine, is married off to the local schoolteacher after her family are unable to raise a dowry for her to marry her true love, Michael. During the first year of her marriage, Tressa distracts herself from her stay-or-go dilemma by working on her grandmother's recipes, searching for solace and answers through their preparation. Through the stories of these two women Recipes For A Perfect Marriage challenges the modern ideal of romantic love as a given and ponders whether true love can really be learned. 'This story is written with so much heart, its beat is palpable in every word on every page' - Cecelia Ahern, author of P S, I Love You