Recipe for a Perfect WifeRecipe for a Perfect Wife

In her suburban house, Alice Hale finds an old cookbook and becomes captivated by the cookbook's previous owner: 1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. When she discovers that Nellie left clues about her own life within the cookbook's pages - and in a mysterious series of unsent letters - she quickly realizes that the housewife's secrets may have been anything but harmless. As she uncovers a more sinister side to Nellie's marriage and with pressure mounting in her own marriage, Alice realizes that to protect herself she must harbour and hatch a few secrets of her own. Author of "The Life Lucy Knew."