The Debt to Pleasure

First US edition. Sm. 8vo. Pp. [xvi], 251, [5]. Quarter-bound brown cloth over laminated pictorial boards with cover art by Hermann Koch, titled in gilt to spine; brown endpapers. B/w title vignette. In tan die-cut dust jacket.

Signed by Author to title page.

Winner of the 1996 Whitbread Best First Novel Award and the 1997 Hawthornden Prize. A New York Times Notable Book. An 'unconventional' cookbook-cum-memoir constructed around a series of seasonal menus, and narrated by Tarquin Winot, an ironist, epicurean and a snob. First book by a former restaurant critic of the Observer. "A novel masquerading as an essay masquerading as a cookbook, and it somehow manages to combine the virtues of all three." –The New Yorker