The Kitchen Front was a deeply meaningful story written by bestselling author Jennifer Ryan, author of the Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle.
During World War II, the BBC hosted a radio program to help British housewives be more creative with their food rations. The focus of the program was to share recipes and cooking tips to help manage rations. The radio program, hosted by cuisine expert Ambrose Hart, decides to hold a cooking contest to try and find the program’s first female co-host to add a woman’s touch to the show.
The four main
characters competing for a chance to co-host the radio program are women who are each very different in their own way and each woman has personal struggles that
they are enduring. There is Audrey Landon a
young widow who is trying to find a way to pay her bills and to keep a roof
over her children’s heads. Miss Nell Brown the
kitchen maid who is looking for a chance to leave her job and find freedom. Lady Gwendoline Strickland is searching for an opportunity
to escape her rich husband’s abuse. Zelda Dupont a trained chef who is also pregnant hopes to win the cooking competition so
that she can land a job as a top London chef.
The challenges that the women face is far too much for them to handle by themselves. However, as the story unfolds, the four women establish close friendships and become their own support network. Through the wisdom that friendship and caring offer, each woman is transformed by the end of the story into a different person who is better able to handle their circumstances. The Kitchen Front was heartwarming with many touching moments. ~JE
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