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"An irresistible beach read"

- Marie Claire

 

Paperback edition

“Keenly observed, deliciously barbed, The  Summer Kitchen is a novel for our time. A terrific read!” - Kevin Baker, bestselling author of Saville Row


Hardcover edition

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Weinreb’s stunning diorama of the country club set and private school progeny is a smart novel of manners and personal transcendence." - LitChat

 

The Summer Kitchen is a most timely novel in these troubled economic times. Set in moneyed Bedford, New York, a bucolic town full of Wall Street families, The Summer Kitchen is a unique look at how one woman copes with losing it all after her husband is arrested for a white-collar crime. Published by St Martin's Press, The Summer Kitchen is available in stores or online.

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And a bestseller in Italy, where it is published by Garzanti Libri as

"La Bottega dei Desideri".

The beautiful jacket for the Italian translation

 
 
 
 
Novel's themes
 
  • A unique take on white-collar crime
  • Financial and social ruin
  • Self-discovery
  • The transcendent power of perspective
  • Spousal love
  • Motherhood
  • Unlikely friendships
  • The grounding influence of good food


 

Also being published in Germany in December 2010 by Droemersche Verlagsanstalt.

 

 

 

 

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket"

- Chinese proverb