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"Vividly drawn and affecting . . . fine touches of subtlety and humour."—Financial Times
"Delicious . . . gorgeously written, full of teasing observations about love, class and cookery."—The Times (London)
"Bethan Roberts is a fearless writer."—Louise Welsh
When local girl Kitty Allen answers an advertisement looking for a "good plain cook," she has no idea what she's getting herself into. As the temperature rises through the long, hot summer, the dream begins to fall apart.
Loosely based on a summer in the life of Peggy Guggenheim, The Good Plain Cook is beautifully written, gently funny, and genuinely touching.
Bethan Roberts lives in Brighton in the south of England. Her debut novel The Pools was critically acclaimed.
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Bethan Roberts was born in Oxford and brought up in nearby Abingdon. She has MAs from Sussex and Chichester universities and teaches creative writing at Chichester and for the Open University. Roberts was awarded a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Prize for her debut novel, The Pools.
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'Arresting... [an] evocative novel of desires and disappointments' - Booksellers' Choice 'Vividly drawn and affecting fine touches of subtlety and humour' - Financial Times 'Delicious Gorgeously written, full of teasing observations about love, class and cookery' - The Times 'Roberts looks set to be one of the must-read novelists of this summer' - Metro 'One of this summer's purest pleasures - Saga Magazine
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1846686652
- ISBN 13 9781846686658
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages336
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