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Anna Johnston

Biography

Anna Johnston

Anna Johnston lives by the beach in Melbourne with her husband and daughters. She left medical school to develop an award-winning cooking program for older widowed men before following her heart into her grandfather’s nursing home, where she worked as the activities coordinator. She is the author of WHEN LEMONS GIVE YOU LIFE and the international bestseller THE BORROWED LIFE OF FREDERICK FIFE.

Anna Johnston

Books by Anna Johnston

by Anna Johnston - Fiction, Humor

Retired Michelin-star chef Griff Barlow is done with grief, guilt and the beige slop they call food at Sunny Glen Aged Care Facility, where he resides. So he breaks into the nursing home kitchen to bake one last tart as his final meal. But the act of cooking stirs a dormant joy, and soon he's sneaking in after dark to serve up flavor and comfort to fellow residents --- all while hiding a lie big enough to destroy the one thing he has left to protect. Lisa, Griff's younger sister and sole visitor, is navigating a midlife ADHD diagnosis, a new romance, and unexpected news that could change everything. Despite their fractured relationship, she keeps showing up, even with hope for reconciliation long buried in the silence between them. But the truth has a way of boiling over, and Griff and Lisa may discover a recipe for forgiveness.