Recipe for a Perfect Wife

Alice Hale leaves her hectic life in New York to start anew in a quiet suburb with her husband. She dreams of becoming a writer and believes the new environment will help her focus on her creativity. One day, she finds an old cookbook belonging to the house’s previous owner, Nellie Murdoch, a housewife who lived there with her husband in the 1950s. With each new page, the woman becomes more immersed in the mysterious world of the past and begins to suspect that her husband is hiding something very important from her. In addition to recipes, Alice discovers encrypted clues about married life and notices similarities between the story of the previous owner and her own. This makes her doubt her relationship with her husband. The woman begins to take control of her own life and defend herself with the help of several secrets she learned from this book.