Hints and tips:
...The Little Red Chairs, by Edna O’Brien, Faber RRP£18.99, 320 pages Claire Messud is the author of ‘The Woman Upstairs’ (Virago/Vintage) Illustration by Dan Mitchell...
...Jo Ellison Food Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine and Beyond, by Olia Hercules, Mitchell Beazley, RRP£25 Whatever your preconceptions about Ukrainian food, prepare to shed them....
...It will make even shorter work of Aunt Edna: she will need a lifetime’s supply of smelling salts in the space of 100 minutes....
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