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Hungry

The Highly Anticipated Memoir from One of the Greatest Food Writers of All Time

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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 Frazzles to Foie Gras: a memoir of wanting more.

From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yearned to be something bigger, to go somewhere better.

Hungry traces Grace’s story from growing up eating beige food to becoming one of the much-loved voices on the British food scene. It’s also everyone’s story – from treats with your nan, to cheese and pineapple hedgehogs, to the exquisite joy of cheaply-made apple crumble with custard. It’s the high-point of a chip butty covered in vinegar and too much salt in the school canteen, on an otherwise grey day of double-Maths and cross country running. It’s the real story of how we have all lived, laughed, and eaten over the past 40 years.

Warm, funny and joyous, Hungry is also about love and loss, the central role that food plays in all our lives, and how a Cadbury’s Fruit ‘n’ Nut in a hospital vending machine can brighten the toughest situation.

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Critic reviews

‘Extraordinary. Vivid, irreverent, heartbreaking.’ NIGEL SLATER

‘So funny and so delicious. I could eat it.’ DAWN O’PORTER

‘… absolutely loved it. Add to your reading list now!’ NIGELLA LAWSON

‘I stayed awake LATE to finish and honest-to-god it’s WONDERFUL! Deliciously honest about ambition, family secrets, loneliness, success, it’s all here! It’s a HUGELY engaging and satisfying read.’ MARIAN KEYES

‘Charming, readable and resonating … this is British comfort food in book form’ STYLIST

‘A moving account of family and ambition’ VOGUE

‘Full of audacious, vodka-dry humour, Hungry is also tender and touching, she writes about her father’s dementia with heartbreaking honesty.’ RED

‘Funny and poignant account of life with her father and how it shaped her relationship with food…Dent is a fine comic writer, but she is also superb on grief and the small moments of connection that offer a way through.' THE OBSERVER

‘Tender and witty, the book is both a love letter to George, whose eventual decline from dementia she recounts, and the food that brought them together.’ THE GUARDIAN

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Lovely book. Could listen to it all over again. Related to many things which refreshed alot of my childhood memories.

Beautiful and thought provoking.

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A book essentially on social class and food. Grace narrates beautifully especially later in the book

Wonderful

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So much of this book resonated with me being born in 1975, thanks for laughs, the memories and even the tears xxx

Delicious, vivid and so so funny

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Beautiful book narrated by the author giving an insight to the life of one of the Country's favourite restaurant critics. The path of her father's gradual decline to dementia was particularly powerful.

Heartfelt story of family and food

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This is a beautiful story that touches your heart. Grace narrates it beautifully and it is a joy to listen to. I didn't know who Grace Dent was as I don't read the papers but I'm so glad I listened to her story

Wonderful in every way

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