Lilla’s Feast

A portrait of a remarkable Englishwoman and her extraordinary life follows the author's great-grandmother Lilla from her birth in 1882, through a life of privilege, exotic locales, bad marriages, two world wars, tragedy, deprivation, love, and, above all, food, interweaving selections from Lilla's cookbook, created when she was in an internment camp in China. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.