The Marmalade Diaries

One house. Two housemates. Three reason to worry: Winnie and Ben are separated by 50 years, a gulf in class and major differences in opinion. Can this unlikely pair make it through these strange lockdown times?

When hunting for a room in London, Ben Aitken came across one for a great price in a lovely part of town. There had to be a catch. And there was. The catch was Winnie: an 85-year-old widow who doesn't suffer fools.

Full of warmth, wit and candour, The Marmalade Diaries tells the story of an unlikely friendship during an unlikely time. Imagine an intergenerational version of Big Brother, but with only two contestants. One of the pair a grieving and inflexible former aristocrat in her mid-eighties. The other a working-class millennial snowflake. What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go right?

Out of the most inauspicious of soils - and from the author of The Gran Tour - comes a book about grief, family, friendship, loneliness, life, love, lockdown and marmalade.

From Ben Aitken, the author of the acclaimed The Gran Tour.

'Charming, touching and very very funny' Jenny Colgan

Dimensions: 14.5 x 22cm
336 page hardback book