Recipes for a Perfect Marriage: A Novel [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 317 pages
• Publisher: Tivoli
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0717139808
• ISBN-13: 978-0717139804
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,584,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kate Kerrigan is an author living and working in Ireland. Her novels are Recipes for a Perfect Marriage which was shortlisted for Romantic Novel of the Year in 2008 and been translated into 20 languages, The Miracle of Grace, which has been adapted as a film script with funding from the Irish Film Board and Ellis Island, the first of a trilogy which was selected as a TV Book Club Summer Read in Britain and launched in the U.S. with Harper Collins in July 2011. Its sequel City of Hope was recently published in hardback in Ireland and paperback editions will be publishing the following spring.

Kate began her career as an editor and journalist, editing many of Britain's most successful young women's magazines before returning to her native Ireland in the 1990's. She writes a weekly column in the Irish Mail about her life in Killala, County Mayo - and contributes a bi-weekly opinion editorial to the Irish Mail on Sunday Sunday.

She also has a memoir "Little Bursts of Happiness" currently under negotiation with UK and American publishing houses. Detailing her recovery from the death of her brother and birth of a late son - the author Patrick McCabe describes it as "simultaneously a cry from the void and a celebration of the quotidian."

www.katekerrigan.ie

Kate Kerrigan: what her peers say.

This story is written with so much heart you can hear its beat and feel its pulse in every word on every page.
Cecelia Ahern

Recipes for a Perfect Marriage is that most prized of things, a unique treatment of an old subject. Not only an extremely entertaining read, this wonderful novel is also chock fill of wisdom about all aspects of love and marriage
Cassandra King

This is a wonderfully written and instantly engaging novel. But what's most impressive here is the wisdom about relationships. Recipes for a Perfect marriage should be required reading not only for those who are married or contemplating tying the knot, but for any person who longs to make any relationship work better.
Elizabeth Berg

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A warm and wise novel, with deep insight into love, September 19, 2005

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avid reader "vdeveau" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Recipes for a Perfect Marriage (Hardcover)

In "Recipes for a Perfect Marriage" Kate Kerrigan transcends the genre of women's fiction, and has produced a novel for everyone - man or woman - who has ever loved only to hesitate on the brink of commitment, or to doubt a commitment already made.

In a tale spanning three generations, Kerrigan illuminates the differences and similarities in the roles of women and men in marriage, and in the way we view marriage itself, today and in our grandparents' generation. Along the way - in a captivating tale that is also a genuine page-turner - Kerrigan displays a unique insight into the highs and lows of romantic love, and the deeper and more complex rewards of committing oneself to another.

Read it, and ask your partner to read it, too.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Marvelous book!, August 18, 2005

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S. Friedman "Jaguarita" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Recipes for a Perfect Marriage (Hardcover)

I picked this up on a trip to Dublin and was surprised at how good it was. It is similar to "Like Water for Chocolate" in that there is a recipe that introduces each chapter. The recipes reflect the relationships in the book. Somewhere in the chapter either the flavor, the difficulty of preparation, or something in the recipe will be important in the progression of the story line. This beautifully written story tells how on her wedding day, a young bride receives her grandmother's recipes and diaries. The bride, who thinks she has made a mistake in her choice of a husband, had always thought that her grandparents had a perfect marriage. Through reading her grandmother's diaries she discovers what a "perfect marriage" really is and how different it is from what we think we are looking for in a mate.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars quaint, September 17, 2006

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maria1971 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Recipes for a Perfect Marriage (Paperback)

An ode to marriage the "old-fashioned way", where loyalty and commitment and `realistic' love are so much more important than romance, passion, or being swept off one's feet.

Sweet and heartwarming and though very much about `the right thing to do' it just manages to escape becoming `preachy'.