Recipe for Life

Recipe for Life

A recipe for life should be a simple thing: love and happiness, family, friends and delicious food. But life is rarely straightforward...

Alice wants to make the most of life - after all, she knows how fragile it can be - and knows she never feels more alive than when she's cooking. Babetta has spent a lifetime tending the garden of her tiny house on the Italian coast, growing food to feed a family now grown and gone.

One summer these two women are brought together in a crumbling Mediterranean villa, with the shared language of food and the soil they grow it from. There, under the heat of the Italian sun, or the shade of the pomegranate tree, secrets will be spoken, fears and hopes shared. But life's lessons are not learnt easily.

Recipe for Life is a novel about discovering how life never stops surprising us, and about how, with a little love and courage, its flavours can be richer than we ever imagined.

Praise for The Italian Wedding
"This sumptuous book should come with a warning not to read it on an empty stomach… If you love romance and food, you'll devour this book." - Australian Women's Weekly
"A lovely women's romance. Pellegrino switches effortlessly between past and present narratives, and keeps the reader hanging on for a sweet ending." - The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Mail
"A feast of food and love" - BusyWoman
"A sensual celebration of all things Italian" - New Idea.

Nicky Pellegrino has enjoyed huge success both locally and internationally with her luscious, Italian-set novels, which have been translated into 12 languages and published in markets are diverse as Portugal and Lithuania. Her most recent book, The Italian Wedding, spent more than 30 weeks on the New Zealand charts. Nicky's Italian father instilled a passion for food in his family and taught them what all Italians know- that you live to eat instead of eating to live. This mantra is the inspiration behind Nicky's writing and, because good novelists throughout research their topics, Nicky and her New Zealander husband visit Italy whenever they can, to spend time with family and road-test mozzarella. Otherwise, they are based in Auckland, where Nicky balances her career as a successful freelance journalist with writing fiction.

Recipe for Life
Hachette Australia
Author: Nicky Pellegrino
ISBN: 9781409100904
Price: $32.99