The Good Plain Cook

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• The Good Plain Cook, by Bethan Roberts

  Home Contact us Posts Comments When Ellen Steinberg, a wealthy American widow with Bohemian tendencies advertises for ‘a good plain cook’ to work in her country home, Kitty, keen to escape life with her sister, applies for the job (lying about her co ... (read full critics)

  bookgeeks published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• The Good Plain Cook by Bethan Roberts - Review by Waterstone's Books Quarterly Online

  The working-class ingénue coming to the big house full of eccentric toffs is a familiar figure in English culture, whether in Jane Eyre or the Midsomer Murders. Into this crowded field Bethan Roberts introduces Kitty, the ‘good, plain cook’ of the ti ... (read full critics)

  wbqonline published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  Not bad. I liked it, just found it a little slow occasionally, but all in all I liked it for the portrayal of 1930s rural England, which it did very well. The characters are also interesting, showing two bohemians - one of which is also a 'bolshevik', to use a term from back then - and their kids, o ... (continue)

  Not bad. I liked it, just found it a little slow occasionally, but all in all I liked it for the portrayal of 1930s rural England, which it did very well. The characters are also interesting, showing two bohemians - one of which is also a 'bolshevik', to use a term from back then - and their kids, on the one hand and a cast of working class characters, on the other. I liked how the author manages to really create a feeling of heavy summer in some of the pages, with her descriptions of nature. She does that so well that you actually feel transported to it. It's an OK novel, I found it through bookcrossing.

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• English Books
• Paperback 320 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1846686652
• ISBN-13: 9781846686658
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Pub date: Jul 03, 2008
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?

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