The Arctic Curry Club

De: Dani Redd

Narrado por: Zoha Rahman

Duración: 10 h y 6 m

Resumen del Editor

Exclusive audio content included with several delicious recipes narrated by the author!

For my whole life I had been looking for home. But why would that be in a place that I’d left? Perhaps I had to keep moving forward in order to find it....

Soon after upending her life to accompany her boyfriend, Ryan, to the Arctic, Maya realises it’s not all Northern Lights and husky sleigh rides. Instead, she’s facing sub-zero temperatures, 24-hour darkness, crippling anxiety - and a distant boyfriend as a result. In her loneliest moment, Maya opens her late mother’s recipe book and cooks Indian food for the first time. Through this, her confidence unexpectedly grows - she makes friends, secures a job as a chef and life in the Arctic no longer freezes her with fear. But there’s a cost: the aromatic cuisine rekindles memories of her enigmatic mother and her childhood in Bangalore. Can Maya face the past and forge a future for herself in this new town? After all, there’s now high demand for a Curry Club in the Arctic and just one person with the know-how to run it....

A tender and uplifting story about family, community and finding where you truly belong - guaranteed to warm your heart despite the icy setting!

©2021 Dani Redd (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

a very good read

I loved the complexity of the main character and the lightness of even the most tumultuous parts.

Not what I hoped for

I think the publisher has done the author a disservice with the cover and synopsis, making this seem like rom-com, chick lit or a beach read set in the arctic. It isn't any of those, but rather a look at the interior experience of a young woman with an anxiety disorder. The early part of the book presents this in an accurate and sympathetic way and I became invested in Maya and her story.

Unfortunately, as this first person narrative progresses, Maya seems to be completely self-absorbed and I began to be bored. Everything is seen through the lens of her anxiety, her problems, her needs and desires, her opportunities, on and on. Several times she comments something on the order of, "I'd gotten so involved in my own world that I'd forgotten to check in on [other character,]" including her newly remarried father, only female friend in her new environment, only friend in father's new location in India, etc. It's Me Me Me, all over again.

The writing is good and the concept has such great potential that I was really disappointed in the execution. I was definitely looking for a feel-good read, but I wound up disliking the main character and what turned out to be a neatly-tied-with-a-party-bow Hallmark ending.