Lilla's Feast
  • Published: 1 November 2005
  • ISBN: 9780552771887
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $27.99

Lilla's Feast

A True Story Of Love, War, And A Passion For Food

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1 Nov 2005
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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.
  • Published: 1 November 2005
  • ISBN: 9780552771887
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Frances Osborne

Frances Osborne studied Law at Oxford and trained as a barrister and journalist. She is married to the current Chancellor of the Exchequer. She lives in West London with her family.

Praise for Lilla's Feast

Passionately written and compelling, Frances Osborne's impressive debut is a wonderful read. The extraordinary life of this ordinary woman is a tumultuous feast of the senses

Santa Montefiore

Lilla's Feast is a wonderful, inspiring book, part page-turner, part history of the British Empire in the Far East, Frances Osborne perfectly captures the stories of a lost generation of women

Amanda Foreman

Osborne tells the story of her great-granny's life with page-turning brio

Sunday Telegraph

A wonderfully evocative, vivid, distilled book

Tatler

A rapturous fusion of personal history and tales of Empire and the Far East

You Magazine

An intriguing memoir

Woman and Home

Powerfully imagined... Aromas of the spicy dishes Lilla learned to cook during her years in the Far East seem to cling to these pages, infusing the narrative with exoticism

The Times

Osborne brings alive the world of her great-grandmother... dazzling and inspiring

USA Today

A rapturous fusion of personal history and tales of Empire

Mail on Sunday