by Marita Conlon-McKenna · Norstedts · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9789113056463
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«Kockskola för ensamma hjärtan» is the contemporary novel by Marita Conlon-McKenna, published by Norstedts in paperback (343 pages, in Swedish).
Irish Alice, divorced with grown-up children, is hopeless with numbers but an excellent cook. Trained in Paris and experienced in Dublin restaurants, she opens a cooking school at home. Her students, each with their own reasons, discover the classes are as much a cooking course as a school for life.
Translation by Eva Haskå; the work was originally published in 2011 and this edition came out in 2014. Cover motto: «Kärlek är den bästa kryddan!».
For those who already enjoyed other novels by Marita Conlon-McKenna, such as «En liten hattaffär på hörnet», «Bröllopsfixaren» or «Sommarbruden».
Marita Conlon-McKenna is an Irish author of children's books and adult fiction. She is best known for her Famine-era historical children's book Under the Hawthorn Tree, the first book of the Children of the Famine trilogy, which was published in 1990 and achieved immediate success. Praised for its child-accessible yet honest depiction of the Great Famine, Under the Hawthorn Tree has been translated into over a dozen languages and is taught in classrooms worldwide. Conlon-McKenna went on to be a prolific writer and has published over 20 books for both young readers and adults. Her debut adult novel Magdalen was published in 1999.
