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The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

Ben Aitken

"Charming, touching and very very funny" -- Jenny Colgan, New York Times bestselling author


ONE HOUSE. TWO UNLIKELY HOUSEMATES.


While 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.


Full of warmth, wit and candor, The Marmalade Diaries tells the story of an unlikely friendship built during an unlikely time. One of the pair, a grieving aristocrat in her mid-eighties. The other? A millennial snowflake. What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go right?


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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Icon Books
  • Publish Date: Jun 14th, 2022
  • Pages: 336
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.60in - 5.60in - 1.40in - 1.00lb
  • EAN: 9781785789021
  • Categories: Death, Grief, BereavementGerontologyMemoirs

About the Author

Ben Aitken was born under Thatcher, grew to 6ft then stopped, and is an Aquarius. He is the author of four books: Dear Bill Bryson, A Chip Shop in Poznan (a Times bestseller), The Gran Tour ('Both moving and hilarious', Spectator) and The Marmalade Diaries.

Praise for this book

"Charming, touching and very very funny" -- Jenny Colgan, New York Times bestselling author