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Gabriel Lightfoot, originally from a northern England mill town, is making good in London as executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel. But his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, in under constant challenge from the competing demands of a multinational staff, gimlet-eyed hotel management, and secret plans to start his own restaurant. Not to mention the worker found dead in the basement...
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"A novel of quiet pleasures, with a perplexed hero who always rings true." (Mail on Sunday)
"Her descriptions of Gabe's disassociated states are excellent...this is an ambitious book from a writer not content to revisit familiar territory...Serious and intelligent." (Independent)
"Ali's strengths lie in a cool authorial distance, and a passion for detail" (The Times)
"A compelling story..Ali is second to none when it comes to capturing modes of speech...Monica Ali is shaping up to be a fine novelist" (Sunday Express)
"The kitchen of the title is the Imperial Hotel in central London, and Ali's dazzling accounts of its manic goings-on make the chef Anthony Bourdain's gory memoir, Kitchen Confidential, seem as genteel as Fanny Cradock." (Sunday Times)
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"Her descriptions of Gabe's disassociated states are excellent...this is an ambitious book from a writer not content to revisit familiar territory...Serious and intelligent." (Independent)
"Ali's strengths lie in a cool authorial distance, and a passion for detail" (The Times)
"A compelling story..Ali is second to none when it comes to capturing modes of speech...Monica Ali is shaping up to be a fine novelist" (Sunday Express)
"The kitchen of the title is the Imperial Hotel in central London, and Ali's dazzling accounts of its manic goings-on make the chef Anthony Bourdain's gory memoir, Kitchen Confidential, seem as genteel as Fanny Cradock." (Sunday Times)
The brilliant new novel from the author of Brick Lane.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1410419819
- ISBN 13 9781410419811
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages703
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