A Taste for Love

Marita Conlon-McKenna

Aug 2018 · Bolinda · Narrated by Emma D'Inverno

About this audiobook

Alice loves to cook. She believes the secret of good food is to cook with passion. Her love affair with cookery has taken her from her parents' seaside hotel, to Paris and then one of Dublin's finest restaurants. Then she marries Liam, and is happy to hang up her chef's hat and cook for her family and friends instead. But now she's cooking for one! Her marriage to Liam over, it's high time she learns to stand on her own two feet and begin again ... Alice opens The Martello School of Cookery and a group of total strangers learn from her to create food that is tasty and delicious. And in the comfort of her kitchen they discover, not only how to cook – but recipes for life ...

About the author

Born in Dublin in 1956 and brought up in Goatstown, Marita went to school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Mount Anville, later working in the family business, the bank, and a travel agency. She has four children with her husband James, and they live in the Stillorgan area of Dublin. Marita was always fascinated by the Famine period in Irish history and read everything available on the subject. When she heard a radio report of an unmarked children's grave from the Famine period being found under a hawthorn tree, she decided to write her first book, Under the Hawthorn Tree.

Emma has worked extensively in both classical and contemporary theatre, including roles with the RSC such as Polya in Philistines, Hitler in Mephisto, Cressida in Troilus and Cressida and Louise Danton in The Danton Affair. She also works in the vocal field and regularly records audiobooks. Her voice work covers many ages and accents from the child Angelica in Philip Pullman's The Subtle Knife to the elderly dying Maddie in the haunting Irish novel, The Butterfly Cabinet.