This book was humerous and heartbreaking in equal measure, and I'm grateful to Readers First for sending an advance copy.
I love reading Grace Dent's restaurant reviews in The Guardian, and watching her on MasterChef, and so was really looking forward to reading her autobiography, and I was not disappointed. The book skips throughout her life from childhood to the current day going back and forward within chapters. Often I find this annoying, but in this book because of the way it was written, it didn't jar at all. As well as following her professional career and her love of food, it also charts her relationships with her parents, and particularly her father's decline with dementia, which in places was heartbreaking to read. To balance this though were plenty of moments that made me laugh, and I would recommend this book without hesitation.
One of my favourite reads of the year.
I love reading Grace Dent's restaurant reviews in The Guardian, and watching her on MasterChef, and so was really looking forward to reading her autobiography, and I was not disappointed. The book skips throughout her life from childhood to the current day going back and forward within chapters. Often I find this annoying, but in this book because of the way it was written, it didn't jar at all. As well as following her professional career and her love of food, it also charts her relationships with her parents, and particularly her father's decline with dementia, which in places was heartbreaking to read. To balance this though were plenty of moments that made me laugh, and I would recommend this book without hesitation.
One of my favourite reads of the year.