The Prodigal Daughter
a gripping family saga full of life-changing decisions, love and conflict
Published on 15. September 2016
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-1-78429-067-2 (ISBN)
Description
The second book in the Food of Love trilogy about an extended Anglo/Italian family in the ever-growing restaurant trade. Rebellious daughter, Angelica Angelotti, wants to strike out on her own away from the family. But some bad choices - including picking the wrong partner - lead to heart-wrenching consequences.
Angelica has grown up in the family restaurant business started by her Italian father, Giovanni, and his English wife, Laura. Surrounded by gorgeous Italian food, now she wants to try something different. Defying her father's wishes, she moves to Paris to learn French cuisine. There, caught up in the excitement and emotion of the May '68 student riots, she falls in love with a charismatic but unreliable man.
Back in London with him, Angelica's future career blossoms at the Savoy Hotel and further develops when she becomes a food writer. What happens to her marriage is another matter and her parents' concerns are proved painfully justified.
Moving back to run the inn on her family's estate in Gloucestershire may feel like failure, but little does Angelica know that what awaits her there is the greatest challenge of her life - and a second chance at love.
Angelica has grown up in the family restaurant business started by her Italian father, Giovanni, and his English wife, Laura. Surrounded by gorgeous Italian food, now she wants to try something different. Defying her father's wishes, she moves to Paris to learn French cuisine. There, caught up in the excitement and emotion of the May '68 student riots, she falls in love with a charismatic but unreliable man.
Back in London with him, Angelica's future career blossoms at the Savoy Hotel and further develops when she becomes a food writer. What happens to her marriage is another matter and her parents' concerns are proved painfully justified.
Moving back to run the inn on her family's estate in Gloucestershire may feel like failure, but little does Angelica know that what awaits her there is the greatest challenge of her life - and a second chance at love.
Reviews / Votes
An enjoyable, well-written love story * Good Housekeeping (on The Food of Love) * Prue Leith knows about colour and flavour and this has lots of both . . . a delicious family saga * Daily Mail (on The Food of Love) * A mouthwatering first course * Hello (on The Food of Love) * Leith has really hit her stride as a writer and uses her own considerable catering experience . . . skilfully interweaving emotional drama with food fashions and restaurant trends * Daily Mail * Perfectly captures the Sixties' scene * Choice Magazine *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
664 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78429-067-2 (9781784290672)
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Prue Leith
The Prodigal Daughter
a gripping family saga full of life-changing decisions, love and conflict
E-Book
09/2016
1st Edition
Quercus
€3.99
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As a cook, restaurateur, food writer and business woman, Prue Leith has played a key role in the revolution of Britain's eating habits since the 1960s. She is a judge on Channel 4's Great British Bake Off. After a long break from food writing, Prue has returned to writing cookery books alongside her fiction. She is the author of seven romantic novels as well as a memoir, Relish. All Prue's fiction and her memoir are in print with Quercus. She lives in Oxfordshre. Follow her on on Twitter @PrueLeith