Red literary editor Sarra Manning picks her favourite new reads
is set in seventeenth century Norfolk during England’s bloody civil war. When Thomas Treadwater returns home from battle summoned by a troubling letter from his sister, he finds his family and farm in disarray and his mother and two of their servants accused of witchcraft and put behind bars by the local witch finder.
On Death Row, murderer Ansel Packer contemplates his last hours but we learn about what kind of man he really is from three women pivotal in his life. His mother, Lavender, a seventeen year old runaway, his wife’s twin Hazel who watches Ansel steal her sister away and Saffy, the detective who brings him to justice.
Through their culinary adventures, new worlds open up for Joan and Imogen and bring with them new people. This charming, effervescent little novel deserves to be a huge bestseller. Before Nigella, before Julia Childs, before even Mrs Beeton, there was Eliza Acton who dreams of being a poet but in 1835, the only way for her to get published and to keep her family in funds is to write a cookery book. To this end, Eliza takes on a maid, Ann Kirby, and forge an unlikely partnership even as Eliza embarks on writing what is now considered the first modern cookery book., is a feast for the senses and also shows that its friendship, rather than food, that nourishes the soul.
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