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Zimmerman, Vicky.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Nursing home patients -- Fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
Cooking -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.
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Zimmerman, Vicky.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Nursing home patients -- Fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
Cooking -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.
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Miss
Cecily
's
recipes
for
exceptional
ladies
a
novel
/ Vicky Zimmerman.
by
Zimmerman, Vicky.
Sourcebooks Landmark, [2020]
Call #:
FICTION ZIM
Subjects
Life change events -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Nursing home patients -- Fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
Cooking -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781728210230 (trade pbk)
Alternate title:
Recipes
for
exceptional
ladies
Description:
422 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published as The Woman Who Wanted More in 2019 in the United Kingdom by Zaffre, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK.
Includes a Reading group guide and Conversation with the author.
Summary:
"When her life falls apart on the eve of her fortietth birthday, Kate Parker finds herself volunteering at the Lauderdale House for
Exceptional
Ladies
. There she meets ninety-seven-year-old
Cecily
Finn.
Cecily
's tongue is as sharp as her mind, but she's fed up with pretty much everything. Having no patience for Kate'
s
choices,
Cecily
prescribes her a self-help book with a difference -- Thought for Food: an unintentionally funny 1950s cookbook high on enthusiasm, featuring menus for anything life can throw at the 'easily dismayed.' So begins an unlikely friendship between two lonely and stubborn souls -- one at the end of her life, one stuck in the middle -- who discover one big life lesson: never be ashamed to ask for more."--Publisher.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Women'
s
fiction.
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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Fiction
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