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As the Great Depression casts a long shadow over the country in 1932, food writer Stella Douglas is commissioned to put together a history of food in England that will lift the spirits and make people feel proud of their national cuisine.

But it’s a task that becomes doubly difficult when Stella discovers that most of England’s favourite dishes actually have their origins in other lands, and then faces a powerful distraction from Freddie Langham, the handsome antiques dealer who comes to her rescue on a marathon cross-country journey to unearth lost recipes.

Historian and highly acclaimed author Caroline Scott – whose haunting novels, The Visitors, The Photographer of the Lost and When I Come Home Again, contemplated different aspects of the aftermath of war – forges a delicious new path with this paean to food set at a time when modern England was starting to emerge from the past.

Good Taste by Caroline Scott: brilliantly researched and written with the stunning authenticity – book review –