Marmalade Diaries

<p><b>'Charming touching and very very funny' Jenny Colgan</b> <p/><b>'Simply too good' <i>Daily Mail</i><br></b><br><i><b>From the author of the </b></i><b>Times<i> bestselling</i> A Chip Shop in Poznan</b> <p/><b>ONE HOUSE. </b><b>TWO HOUSEMATES. </b><b>THREE REASONS TO WORRY: WINNIE AND BEN ARE SEPARATED BY 50 YEARS A GULF IN CLASS AND MAJOR DIFFERENCES OF OPINION.</b> <p/>When hunting for a room in London Ben Aitken came across one for a great price in a lovely part of town. There had to be a catch. And there was. The catch was Winnie: an 85-year-old widow who doesn't suffer fools. <p/>Full of warmth wit and candour <i>The Marmalade Diaries</i> tells the story of an unlikely friendship during an unlikely time. Imagine an intergenerational version of Big Brother but with only two contestants. One of the pair a grieving and inflexible former aristocrat in her mid-eighties. The other a working-class millennial snowflake. What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go right? <p/>Out of the most inauspicious of soils - and from the author of The Gran Tour - comes a book about grief family friendship loneliness life love lockdown and marmalade.</p>