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A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love--and life--she's been looking for in this stunning novel from the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December .
A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
When Iris decides to move to New York to restart her life, she realizes she underestimated how big the Big Apple really is--all the nostalgic movies set in New York she'd watched with her mom while eating their special secret-recipe gelato didn't quite do it justice.
But Bobby, Iris's best friend, isn't about to let her hide away. He drags her to a famous autumn street fair in Little Italy, and as they walk through the food stalls, a little family-run gelateria catches her eye--could it be the same shop that's in an old photo of her mother's?
Curious, Iris returns the next day and meets the handsome Gio, who tells her that the shop is in danger of closing. His uncle, sole keeper of their family's gelato recipe, is in a coma, so they can't make more. When Iris samples the last remaining batch, she realizes that their gelato and her gelato are one and the same. But how can she tell them she knows their secret recipe when she's not sure why Gio's uncle gave it to her mother in the first place?
Iris offers her services as a chef to help them re-create the flavor and finds herself falling for Gio and his family. But when Gio's uncle finally wakes up, all of the secrets Iris has been keeping threaten to ruin the new life--and new love--she's been building all winter long.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Silver (One Night on the Island) offers a middling contemporary rom-com full of manufactured drama and pointless miscommunication. London chef Iris Raven flees her abusive relationship, leaving Britain for New York City. There, she discovers that her mother's signature gelato recipe is the same as the top-secret recipe of a local gelateria, Belotti's. With the chef and Belotti family patriarch in the hospital, the recipe is lost and Gio Belotti, a handsome widower, struggles to keep the business afloat. Gio also believes Iris is a widow due to their snappish first meeting at a bookstore during which she lied to win an argument. Instead of explaining the situation and offering her mother's recipe, Iris embarks on a convoluted scheme to secretly steer Gio toward the correct recipe over the course of months. Their slow-burning romance is interspersed with flashbacks to her mother Vivien's time in 1980s New York--and her own love affair with a Belotti man. Iris is the maudlin author of her own misery, propelling the paper-thin plot forward through a series of bizarre choices. All but Silver's most devoted fans can skip this one. Agent: Nelle Andrew, Rachel Mills Literary. (Oct.)
Library Journal Review
Trying to leave behind in London the grief over her mother's death and the hurt of an abusive relationship, thirtysomething chef Iris heads to New York City for a fresh start. Growing up, she'd spent hours watching movies set in New York with her mother while eating her secret-recipe gelato. At a festival in New York's Little Italy, Iris encounters Belotti's Gelateria and realizes that it's the origin of her mother's special gelato. Returning to the gelateria, she finds handsome Gio running the shop but despairing because his uncle is in the hospital after having a stroke, and he doesn't know the closely guarded recipe for the gelato. Iris offers to help recreate the gelato to keep the business going, and soon Iris's relationship with Gio and his family deepens. But she lies about her ex and her connections to his family compound, and she'll have to tell them the truth as the holidays approach. VERDICT Iris and Gio's relationship is full of sexy, heart-meltingly romantic moments in this emotional and charming rom-com from Silver (One Day in December), which deserves its own movie.--Melissa DeWild