That Part Was True — Deborah McKinlay

A must-read for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and One Day, this vivid and moving novel follows a lonely British woman whose letter to a successful American author sparks a relationship that transforms both their lives.

When Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books, they discover a mutual love of cooking and food. Their friendship blossoms against the backdrop of Jackson's colorful, but ultimately unsatisfying, love life and Eve's tense relationship with her soon-to-be married daughter. As each of them offers, from behind the veils of semi-anonymity and distance, wise and increasingly affectionate counsel to the other, they both begin to confront their own problems and plan a celebratory meeting in Paris -- a meeting that Eve fears can never happen.