Born and raised in Los Angeles, Jennifer Hamm graduated with a BA in English at UCLA and began her writing career developing screenplays for movies and television. As a travel writer, she has covered the globe on assignment for various magazines and brands. She also writes It’s Only for A Year, a long-running blog chronicling her adventures raising her four boys in two countries. Hamm currently splits her time between London and Los Angeles. One Friday in Napa is her first novel.

Vene returns home to her dying mother in a final effort to ease their strained relationship. It’s as hard as she thought it would be. But there is something there that surprises her: the discovery of a secret past hidden in the pages of her mother’s cookbook that reveals a side to her mother she never knew.

Told in alternating perspectives a half-century apart within the same house in Napa, California, Friday in Napa is a story of family, motherhood, love, and the truths that affect everything.