'Charming, touching and very very funny' Jenny Colgan

'Simply too good' Daily Mail

From the author of the Times bestselling A Chip Shop in Poznan

ONE HOUSE. TWO HOUSEMATES. THREE REASONS TO WORRY:

WINNIE AND BEN ARE SEPARATED BY 50 YEARS, A CHAOTIC AGE GAP AND SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES OF OPINION.

When he was looking for a room in London, Ben Aitken found one at an amazing price in a lovely area. There had to be a catch. And indeed there was. The catch was Winnie: an 85-year-old widow who does not suffer fools gladly.

Filled with warmth, humor and honesty, The Marmalade Diaries tells the story of an unexpected friendship in an unexpected time. Imagine an intergenerational version of Big Brother, but with only two contestants. One of them is a grieving and rigid former aristocrat in her eighties. The other is a working-class millennial. What could go wrong? What could go right?

From the most unlikely setting - and from the author of The Gran Tour - comes a book about regret, family, friendship, loneliness, life, love, lockdown and marmalade.

Pages: 336, Dimensions: 14.4x14.4cm