That Part Was True

by Deborah McKinlay

When Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books, they discover a mutual love of cookery 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 problems and plan a celebratory meeting in Paris -- a meeting that Eve fears can never happen.

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

Published February 10, 2015

About the author

Deborah McKinlay is the author of three novels, 'The View From Here', 'That Part Was True' and 'Lily The Tiller'. She lives in South West England.

Reviews

[Elisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

To start, the book is actually 228 pages. I don’t know why that doesn’t show up here on Goodreads.

For the majority of the book, I anticipated that I would end up giving 2 stars, but the final quarter of the story was satisfactory to the point that I hereby award 3 stars. Hurrah!

This books does not seem to contain action, drama, suspense, or really anything particularly exciting; and yet it was nice.
I’m usually not one to seek out “slice of life” stories, and that is how I would characterize this, but I feel like this book acted as a literary palate-cleanser.
I tend to gravitate toward books with a firm step outside of reality. (Fantasy, adventure, magic, etc.) Perhaps that’s why I found it a bit refreshing to read something relatively mellow. Plus, the lovely descriptions of food don’t hurt.

[Loera Palma · Rating 1 out of 5]

To be honest, this book is not good at all. Is like a puzzle of words, the writer is trying to much, the words that uses are very out of place.

I think that she is trying to be perceived as a romantic/ intellectual but causes the opposite.

The story is good but the way of writing is not my style.