Now I'm in London for the first time since 1995. Today my friend Sandra took me to the cafe at the top of the National Portrait Gallery for breakfast. There's a stunning view over nearby London, including the lovely wreathed dome of the National Gallery. I eschewed eggs Benedict, etc in favour of nursery food: two boiled free-range eggs with a generous pile of toast soldiers drizzled with Marmite, and a pot of proper loose-leaf tea. Bliss. On Thursday I'm going to have dinner with a friend at another venerable London institution, the Spaghetti House in Goodge Street. What will life serve up next, I wonder? Meanwhile the New Zealand Listener has published what I consider to be an excellent review of my food memoir in the 17 October issue. Very satisfying!
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It's a great review, isn't it? And very well deserved! Maybe a publisher will pick it up, Anne. I hope so, it deserves to be widely read.
Thank you, Alexia - only of course it is already published by Awa Press, so I guess you mean someone may want to do it in print - but probably not.
Oh Anne, I am do jealous. Eating at them portrait gallery was my go to treat restaurant when I worked in London and worked around the corner from the spaghetti house so it was rather a regular. Glad you are having fun.
Loved your book and would like to ask if you can have a published paper copy as I have friends who don't use e readers. Would like to but this for them for a gift.
Miriam
I did have a lovely time at both these places! So nice to hear you frequented them too. But I have to say, apart from a Turkish lunch, most of what I ate after that was not great at all and sometimes downright awful, especially the bread!
So sorry, Miriam, there isn't a print copy. If they haven't got an ereader but they do have a computer, or a smartphone, they can download it to those - they just need to get the Kindle app. first and then you could gift the book to them.
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