For sixty-three-year-old Mebel, retirement means her husband of more than forty years announcing that he's leaving her for their private chef. Mebel isn't sure who's the bigger loss, but she has the perfect plan to win him back: she'll finally learn to cook.

However, Mebel quickly realizes she's accidentally booked herself into a culinary school not in Paris but rather in a small English village. Despite the frosty welcome from her much younger classmates, Mebel manages to befriend Gemma, the breakout star of the program. When Gemma stops showing up to class, Mebel knows she must figure out what - or who - caused her friend's sudden disappearance. After all, Mebel may not know the first thing about how to cut a potato, but she certainly knows how to identify a fraud, and there's definitely something fishy going on...

Bestselling author Jesse Sutanto brings all her wit and smarts to this big-hearted, funny, compulsively readable tale of a woman finally learning what she's capable of.

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 *

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.