The Good Plain Cook is reviewed in The Times

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The Good Plain Cook by Bethan Roberts was reviewed in The Times on Saturday:

"Bethan Roberts's heroine, Kitty Allen, is a shy 19-year- old who answers a Sussex advertisement for a good plain cook in 1936, and finds herself in a most unconventional household: an American woman who revels in nude sunbathing and has a live-in lover, and her lippy teenage daughter, Geenie, who is insatiably curious about sex. Kitty's outlook is broadened in a beautifully observed novel, which has its tongue-in-cheek humour nicely emphasised by Tara Ward's narration."

You can listen to a clip of the wonderfully entertaining The Good Plain Cook on it's product page.

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