RECIPE FOR LIFE

A recipe for life should be a simple thing: love and happiness, family,friends and a little food. But life is rarely straightforward...Alice wants to make the most of life - after all, she knows how fragile itcan be - and knows she never feels more alive than when she's cooking.Babetta has spent a lifetime tending the garden of her tiny house on theItalian coast, growing food to feed a family now grown and gone.One summer these two women are brought together in a crumblingMediterranean villa, with the shared language of food and the soil theygrow it from. There, under the heat of the Italian sun, or the shade of thepomegranate tree, secrets will be spoken, fears and hopes shared. Butlife's lessons are not learnt easily.RECIPE FOR LIFE is a novel about discovering how life never stopssurprising us, and about how, with a little love and courage, its flavourscan be richer than we ever imagined. Escape to Italy with this sumptuousstory of secrets and friendships under Mediterranean skies.