Ms Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block

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

Jesse Sutanto is the award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of the Aunties and Vera Wong series along with several stand-alone thrillers. She grew up shuttling back and forth between Indonesia, Singapore and Oxford, and considers all three places her home. She has a master's degree from Oxford University and a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Jesse currently lives in Jakarta with her husband and two young daughters.