The debut novel from the multi-award winning food writer Sometimes life doesn\’t follow a recipe Katy is thirty-six, has recently been dumped by her dull-yet-deceitful fianc and in a (not-unrelated) moment of madness, abandoned a Solid, Decently Paid Career to pursue her dream of becoming a chef. But, after a year of expensive cookery school and months in Michelin-star kitchens blow-drying edible ferns for free, she finds herself making sandwiches (heritage duck egg and black garlic mayonnaise on sourdough, admittedly, but sandwiches all the same) in a north London caf and stuck in an ill-advised situationship with a twentysomething who thinks hes his generation\’s answer to Marco Pierre White. Then, a gorgeous doctor strolls in and orders an espresso. Katy is briefly charmed until she sees the scruffy mutt at his feet. Katy hates dogs and Dr Dipesh never goes anywhere without Alan. Can she overlook this major red flag? Will she ever convince her mother shes not having a midlife crisis? And, when a drunken mishap involving a restaurant critic turns Katys life upside down, will she ever see Dip, Alan or the inside of a kitchen again?