A review by followingcharlie
Hungry: The Highly Anticipated Memoir from One of the Greatest Food Writers of All Time by Grace Dent

5.0

Grace Dent is a great storyteller. This is the second book of hers that I have read, and possibly because we are pretty much the same age, the childhood stories really resonate with me. She has a fantastic style to her writing that brings a sense of humour to the mundane and also sometimes even to very emotive subjects; but it works. She is a ‘warts and all’ type of person, which could possibly put you off (it did me to start with) but as the book progresses, I think this really is a tribute to her openness about herself, her upbringing and her failings along the way as well as touching on the subjects of how to cope (and sometimes how you can't cope) with terrible diseases like Dementia and Cancer. The family element of this memoir is also something that is really very touching. Thank you Grace.