The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

Jenny Colgan's The Marmalade Diaries is a charming, touching, and funny book about an unlikely friendship between an 85-year-old widow and a working-class millennial snowflake. It explores grief, family, friendship, loneliness, life, love, lockdown, and marmalade.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 10 March 2022
Publisher: Icon Books

From the author of the Times bestselling A Chip Shop in Poznan, comes a heartwarming and hilarious tale of an unlikely friendship in The Marmalade Diaries.

Ben Aitken, a young man searching for a room in London, stumbled upon a great deal in a charming neighborhood. However, there was a catch. The catch was Winnie, an 85-year-old widow with a sharp wit and a no-nonsense attitude.

Full of warmth, humor, and candidness, The Marmalade Diaries tells the story of an unlikely bond between two very different individuals during an extraordinary time. Picture an intergenerational version of Big Brother, with only two contestants: a grieving and inflexible former aristocrat in her mid-eighties, and a working-class 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 that explores grief, family, friendship, loneliness, life, love, lockdown, and marmalade.

Jenny Colgan's writing is enchanting, touching, and incredibly funny. The Marmalade Diaries is a must-read for anyone who loves a good story, and is sure to leave you feeling uplifted and inspired.

Weight: 448g
Dimension: 146 x 223 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781785788130