I just loved A Table by the Window, Hillary Manton Lodge. I stayed up
way too late and allowed other tasks to go undone to read it.
Although, when I think about it, I really can't come up with much we
have in common, I very much felt a connection with the main character in
the book, Juliette D'Alisa. She is a young, single French-Italian food
writer, with a passion for cooking, who lives in a big city and comes
from a big, loud family. I am a middle-aged, married Dutch-Spanish
administrative assistant, who lives in the suburbs and comes from a
quiet, small family. I think what connected me to her is our love of
cooking and our love of the Lord. She is a gourmet cook, I a hack, but
nevertheless I do love food and the way it nourishes and blesses other
people. I think, although I fully realize she is a fictional character,
she felt the same.
If you too like food with a bit of mystery
and romance thrown in, you too will enjoy this book. As a bonus, it is
filled with lovely, detailed recipes that go along with the story. Many
of them are quite complicated with ingredients that I certainly don't
stock in my pantry, but they were fun to read nonetheless.
One of
the things I enjoyed most Hillary Manton Lodge's writing is that it's
not too predictable. There are a few surprise twists along the way,
yet it ends happily like I want from a romance novel. Although it is
Christian fiction, it is not in your face, not overly preachy, the
characters are not gushingly sweet.
I highly recommend that you
too, take your place at A Table by the Window, and enjoy this book as I
did! Blogging for Books provided this book to me for free in exchange
for an honest review.
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