# The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple - Hardcover

by **Ben Aitken** (Author)

**"Charming, touching and very very funny" -- Jenny Colgan, _New York Times_ bestselling author  
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**ONE HOUSE. TWO UNLIKELY HOUSEMATES.**

  

While 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 candor, _The Marmalade Diaries_ tells the story of an unlikely friendship built during an unlikely time. One of the pair, a grieving aristocrat in her mid-eighties. The other? A 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.

### Author Biography

**Ben Aitken** was born under Thatcher, grew to 6ft then stopped, and is an Aquarius. He is the author of four books: _Dear Bill Bryson_, _A Chip Shop in Poznan_ (a _Times_ bestseller), _The Gran Tour_ ('Both moving and hilarious', _Spectator_) and _The Marmalade Diaries_.

**Number of Pages:** 336

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN

**Publication Date:** June 14, 2022

## Details

- **Price:** 27.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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