In The Kitchen - Softcover

The kitchen of the title is the Imperial Hotel in central London and Ali’s dazzling accounts of its manic goings-on make Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential seem as genteel as Fanny Cradock. --Sunday Times

Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen is set among London’s illegal workers and prefigured the credit crunch. A mature, bleak and beautifully crafted novel.” --Sunday Telegraph (Best Books of the Year 2009)

This is a bold novel from an intelligent writer who is determined to explore difficult relationships and uncomfortable conditions in 21st-century Britain. --Independent on Sunday

Does Gabe get his Michelin star, that odd confirmation that cooking is about prizes rather than sustenance? What matters more is that Monica Ali is here confirmed as a three-star presence in British fiction. Her best book yet. --Scottish Sunday Herald

Ali is on top form when she captures the kitchen in full flow, efficiency running on an undercurrent of violence. Here cameos are masterful ... Ali is a clever, careful writer, a rich observer of detail...An elegant novel ...This is a book about what it means to live in the 21st century, what it means to be good in this world of moral and political quicksand ... We can look at Lightfoot and see something of ourselves. --Scotsman

The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of Brick Lane.