Elisabeth Hyde

Another dysfunctional family? Sort of, with some secrets to hide.

Three siblings, Ruth, George, and Lizzie all go to visit their father who lives in New Hampshire. Lizzie is the youngest and lives nearby. George and Ruth live in Boston and Washington, DC. Murray, the father, invites Ruth and George to come and intervene with Lizzie and her much older boyfriend to break them up. They all have different personalities and lives but they try to get along now that they are older but there are still resentments.

A lot happens in this book and it goes back and forth from the present (then 2016) back to 1984 and tragedy happens.

I love the title of this book and it refers to a now ruined cookbook that their mother used constantly which cannot be replaced because of their mother's notes in the margins.… (more)