The Year of Miracles: Recipes About Love + Grief + Growing Things

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'Ella Risbridger has a comforting talent for delivering deliciousness in a way that seems like an act of compassion' NIGELLA LAWSON 'An extraordinary, heartwarming book with gorgeous recipes. I loved it' NIGEL SLATER 'Love, sorrow, grief and how cooking can get you through. Ella Risbridger has such a sincere and distinctive voice. A book full of wisdom.' DIANA HENRY 'Gut-wrenching and beautiful' VOGUE 'Both a beautiful memoir and a hugely comforting cookbook' MARIAN KEYES This cookbook is about a year in the kitchen. A year of grief and hope and change; of fancy fish pie, cardamom-cinnamon chicken rice, chimichurri courgettes, quadruple carb soup, blackberry miso birthday cake, and sticky toffee Guinness brownie pudding. A year of loss, and every kind of romance, and fried jam sandwiches. A year of seedlings and pancakes. A year of falling in love. A year of recipes. A year, in other words, of minor miracles. The Year of Miracles by bestselling author Ella Risbridger is more than just a cookbook; like her award-winning Midnight Chicken, every page is a transporting blend of recipes and life story. This is about what happens when you've lived through the worst thing you could have imagined - and how you can still cook, and eat, and love.

Ella Risbridger is a writer, editor and anthologiser. In a former life she was a beauty columnist for the i, a cancer columnist for the Pool, a sometime journalist for lots of places (Guardian, Observer, Prospect, Grazia, Stylist), a poet and a carer. She now lives and works in south-east London, where she has too many books and thinks a lot about getting a cat. Ella's website is seldom updated and her Twitter is mostly abandoned, but she is often on Instagram. @ellarisbridger / ellarisbridger.com

Both a beautiful memoir and a hugely comforting cookbook * Marian Keyes * 'The most talented British debut writer in a generation' * Sunday Times * The Year of Miracles is just as wonderful. It's about loss, grief, love, hope and how cooking gets you through. It's like treasure. The recipes are excellent * India Knight, Sunday Times * 'Recipes that celebrate what it is to be alive, even when life is in turmoil, showing how making simple food with a friend can be all the reassurance you need to lift your day' * Dan Lepard * 'Gut-wrenching and beautiful' * Vogue * 'The most beautiful book about food I've read in a recent history of reading the most beautiful books about food.' * Gilly Smith, host of Cooking the Books * 'A really important and beautiful book' * Life, Death, Whatever * 'It's hugely comfortable and beautiful and also full of great recipes' * Elly Curshen * 'Ella Risbridger's new book is magical' * Georgia Toffolo * '[A] moving month-by-month chronicle of recipes [... a] groundbreaking female chef' * Harper's Bazaar *