The kitchen front : a novel / Jennifer Ryan.
Publication details: New York : Ballantine Books, 2021.Edition: First editionDescription: 406 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780593158807 (hardback)
- 1900-1999
- Television cooking shows -- Fiction
- Women household employees -- Fiction
- Wives -- Fiction
- Widows -- Fiction
- Cooks -- Fiction
- FICTION / Historical / World War II
- FICTION / Women
- FICTION / Sagas
- Cooking -- Competitions
- Cooks
- Widows
- Wives
- Women
- Women household employees
- Cooking -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
- Wives -- Fiction
- Widows -- Fiction
- Cooks -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Cooking -- Competitions -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
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"From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a new World War II-set story of four women on the home front competing for a spot hosting a BBC wartime cookery program and a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is putting on a cooking contest--and the grand prize is a job as the program's first-ever female co-host. For four very different women, winning the contest presents a crucial chance to change their lives. For a young widow, it's a chance to pay off her husband's debts and keep a roof over her children's heads. For a kitchen maid, it's a chance to leave servitude and find freedom. For the lady of the manor, it's a chance to escape her wealthy husband's increasingly hostile behaviour. And for a trained chef, it's a chance to challenge the men at the top of her profession. These four women are giving the competition their all--even if that sometimes means bending the rules. But with so much at stake, will the contest that aims to bring the community together serve only to break it apart?"--