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. She lives in Barnsbury with a dog who is considerably more famous than she is.

Felicity will be talking to Claire Cohen, feature writer for the Times, Sunday Times, The Guardian, interviewer and author of BFF? The Truth about Female Friendship. Claire has been named Women's Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors, and been declared one of Britain's top 50 gender equality trailblazers.

The Underdog

Katy is thirty-six, has recently been dumped by her dull-yet-deceitful fiancé and, in a moment of madness, abandoned a good, solid, decently paid career to pursue her dream of becoming a chef. But while she invests in all the right ingredients, the results are far from perfect…

'Food. Romance. Dogs. There is literally nothing not to love in this novel’ Emma Freud

‘Brilliantly fun, witty and warm’ Emma Hughes

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