Carly Lewis

The Cape Town Series · Book 3

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Fatima Al-Rashid, 37, two-Michelin-star chef. Bo-Kaap, the Cape Malay Quarter.

She came to bury her mother and found the woman she'd never been told about. The food historian in the Bo-Kaap archive knew the rest.

Grief and food · Family secrets · Homecoming · Slow burn

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About the book

Series

Book 3 of six in the Cape Town Series by Carly Lewis. Reads as a complete standalone novel.

Heroine

Fatima Al-Rashid, 37, two-Michelin-star chef.

Setting

Bo-Kaap, the Cape Malay Quarter, in and around Cape Town, South Africa. Every heroine in the series finds her way to the same sage-green door in Woodstock, where Miriam Sobukwe keeps rooibos on the stove.

Genre

Book-club women's fiction with a romance spine. It ends well, as every book in the series does.

Heat

Warm, not explicit.

Availability

Available now. On Kindle Unlimited from release day, and in paperback and hardcover on Amazon.

← Book 2: PressedBook 4: The Lighthouse Keeper →All six in order

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