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A butcher, a baker, a jilted homemaker... After forty years of marriage, Mebel Tanadi's husband has just announced he's leaving her for their private chef. But Mebel has the perfect plan to win him back: she'll finally learn to cook. Despite the frosty welcome from the much younger classmates in her culinary school - and her total lack of skills - Mebel manages to befriend the breakout star of the program, Gemma. Through their unlikely friendship, and the dicing of many, many potatoes, Mebel realises that, maybe, there's more to life than being the perfect trophy wife...

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Sutanto's heartwarming, feel-good story of a formerly entitled woman who learns she has desires of her own and is more than arm candy is laced with humour and will appeal to readers who enjoy stories of women reinventing themselves * Library Journal * Sutanto, who is behind the beloved Vera Wong mystery series, has created another unsinkable and unstintingly funny 60-something female character, and readers should derive much pleasure witnessing Mebel's transformation from castoff wife into Chinese Indonesian Golden Girl. Soufflé lightness, deliciously flavoured with feminism * Kirkus Reviews *

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Jesse Sutanto is the award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of the Aunties and Vera Wong series along with several stand-alone thrillers. She grew up shuttling back and forth between Indonesia, Singapore and Oxford, and considers all three places her home. She has a master's degree from Oxford University and a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Jesse currently lives in Jakarta with her husband and two young daughters.

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