Recipes for cherubs

the long version

Despatched by her mother to spend the summer with two great-aunts at Shrimp's Hotel in the sleepy village of Kilvenny on the Welsh coast, Catrin is dismayed to find that her reclusive, eccentric aunt is not expecting her and, long closed to visitors, the hotel is nothing like the grand place her mother remembers. Catrin finds herself fascinated by a 200-year-old, beautifully-illustrated Italian recipe book she discovers on the premises. As she discovers more about the history of the book and grows closer to her frail, lonely aunt, Catrin realises that people from the past can sometimes interlace with the present and point a way forward into the future.