The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

Reviews

Melanie’s reads

Everything is here: love, loneliness, grief, family and friendship. This is a non fiction account of a blossoming friendship where the age difference only accounts for knowing the best oranges to make marmalade and which pan to boil an egg in. But to me she is funny, feisty and an absolute delight. The people who appear through Winnie’s tales are recognisable and her and others opinions of them were certainly comical.

Andrea

That catch is Winnie but I beg to differ…. . Not long after meeting, this odd couple find themselves plunged into the first Covid lockdown together!

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC. Yes she’s straight talking, yes she’s opinionated and yes she likes things done a certain way, her way. Thank goodness there’s always marmalade!

All views are my own. Filled with wonderful anecdotes and familial histories told over the covid lockdown.

What a loving, warm, generous book! Banana on curry, ten year old salad dressing and a spice rack that contained spices older than probably their combined ages. Poor Ben was certainly in for an amusing lockdown especially at dinner time.