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Hungry by Grace Dent
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
I wasn't expecting a huge amount when I started this audiobook beside mainly food and restaurant talk but it is full to the brim with so much more.
Grace Dent hails from a working class family in Cumbria and has some how (an absolute fluke, as she says herself) become one of Britain's most well known food critics. The opening chapter Grace lovingly speaks about her Dad making 'scetti' (his version of Bolognese) for her as a child and from this point on Grace brings us on the sometimes bumpy emotional rollercoaster of her life. This memoir is really well written and honestly feels like you're just sitting there having a chat. This feeling is increased by the fact that Grace reads the audiobook herself.
This is a beautifully honest memoir full of happiness, sadness, highs and lows but also some fantastic humour. I always enjoyed Dent as a critic on MasterChef but now I absolutely adore her and hope to see much more of her work in the future.
Grace Dent hails from a working class family in Cumbria and has some how (an absolute fluke, as she says herself) become one of Britain's most well known food critics. The opening chapter Grace lovingly speaks about her Dad making 'scetti' (his version of Bolognese) for her as a child and from this point on Grace brings us on the sometimes bumpy emotional rollercoaster of her life. This memoir is really well written and honestly feels like you're just sitting there having a chat. This feeling is increased by the fact that Grace reads the audiobook herself.
This is a beautifully honest memoir full of happiness, sadness, highs and lows but also some fantastic humour. I always enjoyed Dent as a critic on MasterChef but now I absolutely adore her and hope to see much more of her work in the future.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer and Dementia