Lilla's Feast
Author: Osborne, Frances
ISBN: 9780552771887
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Nov 2005
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
Sensual family memoir of a modern woman in the last 100 years, spanning three continents and three husbands.
Lilla Eckford, interned in a Japanese civilian camp in China during the second world war after an extraordinary early life,passed her time by compiling a book about the joys of food.Thisprecious cookery book, now in the possession of the ImperialWarMuseum, inspired Lilla's great-granddaughter, Frances Osborne, to investigate her enthralling story.
Lilla's Feast spans the world from China to India and finally to England over a hundred years, and blends together personal history, world events, period atmosphere and family anecdotes into a brilliantly vibrant and poignant story.
ISBN: 9780552771887
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Nov 2005
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
Sensual family memoir of a modern woman in the last 100 years, spanning three continents and three husbands.
Lilla Eckford, interned in a Japanese civilian camp in China during the second world war after an extraordinary early life,passed her time by compiling a book about the joys of food.Thisprecious cookery book, now in the possession of the ImperialWarMuseum, inspired Lilla's great-granddaughter, Frances Osborne, to investigate her enthralling story.
Lilla's Feast spans the world from China to India and finally to England over a hundred years, and blends together personal history, world events, period atmosphere and family anecdotes into a brilliantly vibrant and poignant story.
