Thyme Out

By Katie Fforde

Published Sep 2013

When Perdita Dylan delivers her baby vegetables to a local hotel and finds that her unpredictable ex-husband, Lucas, has taken over the kitchen, she is horrified – particularly when she discovers he’s being groomed as the latest celebrity chef an needs her picturesque, if primitive cottage, and her, in supporting roles.

Her life is further complicated when Kitty, her eighty-seven year-old friend, has a stroke. Perdita needs someone to lean on – and Lucas seems so keen to help that she starts to wonder if he’s really such a villain. Can she cope with all this alone? Or should she face up to the fact that ‘You can’t cuddle lettuces’?