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Alice Hale, the protagonist of the novel, leaves her career in PR to become a writer. But this is not the only change in her life - she and her husband move from New York to a quiet suburb. Not everything goes according to plan, she spends a lot of time in a large empty house, she is very bored there, and her plans do not coincide with her husband. One day, she finds an old cookbook by the previous owner of this house, Nelly Murdoch, who was a housewife and lived here with her husband in the 50s.

In addition to the recipes, Alice discovers cryptic clues about married life in the book and notices similarities between this woman's story and her own. This makes her question her relationship with her husband. She begins to take control of her life and defend herself with the help of a few secrets she learns from the book.