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London E17, 2019, a yellow kitchen stands as a metaphor for the lifelong friendship between three women: Claude, the earnest baker, fragile and goal-orientated Sophie and stubborn and political Giulia. They have the best kind of friendship, chasing life and careers, dating, dreaming and consuming but always returning to be reunited in the yellow kitchen.
That is, until a trip to Lisbon unravels unexplored desires and the friendship between Claude and Sophie becomes intimate. Having sex is one thing, waking up the day after is the beginning of something new.
The Yellow Kitchen is a seasonal novel set in 2019. It is a hymn to the last year of London as we knew it, recalling how fast we consumed the city, and how much it consumed us back. But, it is also a celebration of all things international, the culture, the food and the rhythms we live by. Exploring the complexities of female friendship and body experiences, it is a love letter to womanhood as well as being a novel that portrays sisterhood and motherhood in the plural shapes they form.
That is, until a trip to Lisbon unravels unexplored desires and the friendship between Claude and Sophie becomes intimate. Having sex is one thing, waking up the day after is the beginning of something new.
The Yellow Kitchen is a seasonal novel set in 2019. It is a hymn to the last year of London as we knew it, recalling how fast we consumed the city, and how much it consumed us back. But, it is also a celebration of all things international, the culture, the food and the rhythms we live by. Exploring the complexities of female friendship and body experiences, it is a love letter to womanhood as well as being a novel that portrays sisterhood and motherhood in the plural shapes they form.