Signature Books
9781857252279 £16.99
Timewell Press HB Publ 4th Sept
Triumph and tragedy, happiness and despair, joy and sorrow - through love and death and life lived to the full with a man who loved both alcohol and other women - for food-writer Elizabeth Luard, marriage to writer and sometime king of satire Nicholas Luard was never going to be easy.
My Life As A Wife AI About Elizabeth Luard Content Reviews
My Life.... continues the story of Family Life, telling of a forty-year marriage and the people and places which brought both sunshine and shadow. From Elizabeth's childhood in South-America to the private gaming tables of Monte Carlo to a rebellious year as a debutante to bringing up a family in the wilds of Andalusia to a prizewinning career as a cookery-writer to the death of a beloved daughter from Aids to the grim days of her husband's liver-transplant through to the final reckoning - when a man who attracted success as easily as disaster refused to accept the consequences of what couldn't be changed.
Yet this is a story of laughter and hope as well as sadness - the healing power of children, the comfort of the kitchen table, the simple joy of making life work.