Felicity Cloake is the multi award-winning author of the Guardian’s long-running How to Make the Perfect recipe column, and nine books including the bestselling One More Croissant for the Road, a Radio Four book of the week, Red Sauce Brown Sauce, Fortnum & Mason food book of the year 2023, and Peach Street to Lobster Lane: Coast to coast in search of real American cuisine. The Underdog is her first novel. She lives in Barnsbury with a dog who is considerably more famous than she is.