Dinner with Edward : A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

from justella

I found it really difficult to read this book. I actually read a little of it and put it away for a while before making myself read it. Unlike many readers who enjoyed reading about the friendship between the author and a friend's ninety-five year old father. I found it creepy that he called her ...

from Micheller7

Although I read fiction most often, I like variety, so sometimes I read non- fiction; my favorite genre of non-fiction is memoir. Although not subtitled as such, Dinner With Edward by Isabel Vincent, is certainly her memoir of an unusual friendship with a gentleman half her age, she being in her ...

from dschander

Dinner With Edward is a light, pleasant book about two people adrift in life and how their dinners together bring them both kinship and guidance. However, the narration is disjointed, moving back and forth in time regularly and unexpectedly; the dinners have some description but few major details...

from m.belljackson

Dinner with Edward is definitely not a great book for Vegetarians with way too much emphasis on preparing meat, though the Apricot soufflé and the scrambled egg recipes are memorable. Also memorable is the bond that develops between Edward and Isobel at the times in their lives when comfort and i...

from michigantrumpet

Isabel Vincent initially views her visit to a friend's elderly, recently-widowered father as a chore.Tasked as a one-girl cheering section, Vincent soon finds the visits are hardly onerous. An accomplished cook, Edward's scrumptious dinner menus head each chapter. She learns to appreciate food pr...