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The Good Plain Cook
The Good Plain Cook
paperback
Published:
3 July, 2008
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781846686658 |
| ISBN10 | 1846686652 |
| Number Of Pages | 336 |
| Item Weight | 405 g |
| Product Dimensions | 25 x 216 x 135 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Serpent's Tail |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main |
Media Reviews
Wonderfully drawn * Metro *
Her writing demonstrates an acute awareness of gathering tension... Roberts looks set to be one of the must-read novelists of this summer * Metro *
Slyly humorous * Sainsbury's *
Simmering and sensual * Bella *
Funny, thought-provoking and very readable * The Gloss *
Roberts judiciously balances Ellen's delicious outre flamboyance with a beautifully observed portrait of her tolerant, bemused cook.Roberts has said it was her intention to put the below-stairs girl centre stage . She has succeeded admirably -- Eithne Farry * Daily Mail *
Delicious... Gorgeously written, full of teasing observations about love, class and cookery -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
Vividly drawn and affecting... fine touches of subtlety and humour -- Sophie Davies * Financial Times *
Charming * Image Magazine *
A subtly witty study of class tensions and general human folly... Roberts writes an understated, suggestive prose that achieves maximum comic impact with deceptively slight materials, and the book's brisk dialogue ensures a fast pace in spite of the languid summer setting...One of the novel's greatest strengths is the way in which the surface comedy is underpinned by a darker narrative seam...The Good Plain Cook succeeds so well not least because it manages to keep its eye firmly, to the end, on the social reality it spoofs -- Elizabeth Lowry * Guardian *
Arresting... [an] evocative novel of desires and disappointments. -- Ruth Atkins * Booksellers' Choice *
One of this summer's purest pleasures... Bethan Roberts is a clever, confident young writer who enjoys herself hugely, producing a perfectly proportioned story of love, inadequate cooking, cultural confusion and complex characters in domestic difficulties -- Iain Finlayson * Saga *
A marvellously told little tale * Sunday Business Post *
Beguilingly comic... Effortlessly funny * Sunday Tribune *
Meditative, sensual and largely restrained * New Statesman *
An evocative literary tome * Scarlet *
A beautifully written tale that drew me in immediately... Illuminating and moving, this is meticulously crafted storytelling from a very gifted new writer -- Linda Leatherbarrow * NewBooksMag *
Excellent... Has plenty to say about sex and class and say it with subtle wit and concision -- John O'Connell * Time Out Books of the Year *
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Author's Bio
Bethan Roberts was born in Oxford and brought up in nearby Abingdon. She has MAs from Sussex and Chichester universities and teaches creative writing at Chichester and for the Open University. Roberts was awarded a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Prize for The Pools.