![]() ![]() Much to her surprise she discovers a talent – and a passion – for the culinary arts.Įliza hires young, destitute Ann Kirby to assist her. Although she’s never set foot in a kitchen, she begins collecting recipes and teaching herself to cook. But no one knows how to use them. When Eliza Acton is told by her publisher to write a cookery book instead of the poetry she loves, she refuses-until her bankrupt father is forced to flee the country. Beeton and well before Julia Child, there was Eliza Acton, who changed the course of cookery writing forever.Įngland, 1835. London is awash with thrilling new ingredients, from rare spices to exotic fruits. In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor’s A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, Annabel Abbs, the award-winning author of The Joyce Girl, returns with the brilliant real-life story of Eliza Acton and her assistant as they revolutionized British cooking and cookbooks around the world.īefore Mrs. Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick * A Country Living Best Book of Fall * A Washington Post Best Feel-Good Book of the Year * One of the New York Times's Best Historical Fiction Novels of Fall ![]()
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