A butcher, a baker, a jilted homemaker...

After forty years of marriage, Mebel Tanadi's husband has just announced he's leaving her for their private chef. But Mebel has the perfect plan to win him back: she'll finally learn to cook.

Despite the frosty welcome from the much younger classmates in her culinary school - and her total lack of skills - Mebel manages to befriend the breakout star of the program, Gemma. Through their unlikely friendship, and the dicing of many, many potatoes, Mebel realises that, maybe, there's more to life than being the perfect trophy wife...

'A funny, warm-hearted read about a woman's late-life self-discovery' Daily Mail

"Sutanto's heartwarming, feel-good story of a formerly entitled woman who learns she has desires of her own and is more than arm candy is laced with humour and will appeal to readers who enjoy stories of women reinventing themselves" - Library Journal

"Sutanto, who is behind the beloved Vera Wong mystery series, has created another unsinkable and unstintingly funny 60-something female character, and readers should derive much pleasure witnessing Mebel's transformation from castoff wife into Chinese Indonesian Golden Girl. Soufflé lightness, deliciously flavoured with feminism" - Kirkus Reviews

"A funny, warm-hearted read about a woman's late-life self-discovery" - Daily Mail