num_pages: 363
description: Lilly and Val are lifelong friends united as much by their differences as by their similarities. Lilly dramatic and confident lives in the shadow of her beautiful wayward mother and craves the attention of her distant disapproving father. Val shy and idealisticand surprisingly ambitiousstruggles with her desire to break free from her demanding housebound mother and a father whose dreams never seem to come true.In childhood LillyPad and Valpal vow to form an exclusive two-person club. Throughout the decades they write intimate letters in which they share hopes fears deepest secretsand recipes from Lillys Lovelorn Lasagna to Valeries Forgiveness Tapenade. Readers can cook along as the girls travel through time facing the challenges of independence; the joys and heartbreaks of first love; and the emotional complexities of family relationships identity mortality and goals deferred.But no matter what different paths they take or what misunderstandings threaten to break them apart Lilly and Val always find their way back together through their Recipe Club . . . until the fateful day when an act of kindness becomes an unforgivable betrayal.Now decades later while trying to recapture the trust theyve lost Lilly and Val reunite once moreonly to uncover a shocking secret. Will it destroy their friendship or bring them ever closer?
language: English
title: The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship
publisher: Polhemus Press