Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

Kerrigan, Kate

ISBN 10: 1447213122 / ISBN 13: 9781447213123

Published by Pan MacMillan, 2012

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00097989175

Synopsis:

""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"

From the Publisher: Tressa is admirably sure of almost everything -- her career as a successful food writer, her great friends, and her vibrant New York lifestyle. When Dan -- good-looking, capable, and trustworthy -- shows up on her doorstep, she hopes that he’s The One. Soon they are married, but once all the excitement of the wedding is behind her, Tressa is struck with an awful idea: Maybe Dan isn’t the great love of her life, much as she wants him to be. Amidst her uncertainty, Tressa finds an unexpected beacon: the journals and recipes of her grandmother, who had the kind of marriage that Tressa always believed she should have -- the perfect marriage. Or so Tressa thought. They’re generations and oceans apart, yet in this charming, beautifully imagined novel, two women learn that marriage, like brown bread, is both sturdy and fragile, and never to be taken for granted.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Recipes for a Perfect Marriage
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good