The Cookbook Club

Margo Everson has been left by a self-absorbed husband, and what she has to show for the marriage is a collapsing farmhouse and a shelf of much-loved cookbooks. When she sees a notice for a cookbook club, she knows she has found her people.

Trista Walker has walked away from a legal career to open a restaurant, betting that a passion for cooking can also pay the bills, though the place needs a gut renovation and an exterminator first. Aja Alexander shows up hoping nobody notices that the sight of food makes her ill, because she is pregnant and cannot bring herself to tell her wealthy boyfriend or his icy mother.

Beth Harbison's novel of food and friendship follows the three of them across a year of shared meals, disintegrating plans, and the kind of candour that only arrives over a table. Recipes are woven throughout.