The Kitchen Entrance: A Novel

From the bestselling writer of The Chilbury Girls’ Choircomes an unforgettable novel of a BBC-sponsored wartime cooking competitors and the 4 girls who enter for an opportunity to raised their lives.

Two years into World Warfare II, Britain is feeling her losses: The Nazis have gained battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have reduce off the provision of meals. In an effort to assist housewives with meals rationing, a BBC radio program known as The Kitchen Entrance is holding a cooking contest—and the grand prize is a job as this system’s first-ever feminine co-host. For 4 very totally different girls, successful the competitors would current an important probability to alter their lives.

For a younger widow, it’s an opportunity to repay her husband’s money owed and preserve a roof over her kids’s heads. For a kitchen maid, it’s an opportunity to depart servitude and discover freedom. For a girl of the manor, it’s an opportunity to flee her rich husband’s more and more hostile habits. And for a skilled chef, it’s an opportunity to problem the lads on the prime of her occupation.

These 4 girls are giving the competitors their all—even when that generally means bending the principles. However with a lot at stake, will the competition that goals to carry the neighborhood collectively solely serve to interrupt it aside?

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