Hungry
Book description
WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2021
WINNER OF 2021 LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Extraordinary. Vivid, irreverent, heartbreaking.' NIGEL SLATER
'So funny and so delicious. I could eat it.' DAWN O'PORTER
'Delicious.' THE OBSERVER
From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little…
Why read it?
1 author picked Hungry as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a memoir that took me straight back to those beige culinary days of my Geordie upbringing, when the best thing about Autumn was rice pudding and the comfort food of the eighties. Grace writes with charm and wit, interspersing her career highs and lows with some wonderfully warm moments of nostalgia. Very moving and will make you reach for a can of Heinz tomato soup.
From Dawn's list on escapism on a rainy Autumn evening.
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