TheYear of Miracles

A positive book about how we live through grief, and live better - but also ultra-tasty, hack-driven cookery that shows what comfort food looks like through the year (summer as well as winter)Ella is one of the UK's rising cookery stars: Midnight Chicken won the prestigious Guild of Food Writers 'best general cookbook award' despite being a debutFully illustrated in colour by Elisa Cunningham (Ella's longtime collaborator)There will be lots of gorgeous new quotes for Miracle Pie - we can anticipate support from Nigella Lawson, Diana Henry, Dolly Alderton and moreElla Risbridger is a writer, editor and anthologiser. In a former life she was a beauty columnist for the i, a cancer columnist for the Pool, a sometime journalist for lots of places (Guardian, Observer, Prospect, Grazia, Stylist), a poet and a carer. She now lives and works in south-east London, where she has too many books and thinks a lot about getting a cat. Ella's website is seldom updated and her Twitter is mostly abandoned, but she is often on Instagram. @ellarisbridger / ellarisbridger.comSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDRE SIMON BEST COOKBOOK AWARD _______________ 'Ella Risbridger has a comforting talent for delivering deliciousness in a way that seems like an act of compassion' - NIGELLA LAWSON 'An extraordinary, heartwarming book with gorgeous recipes. I loved it' - NIGEL SLATER _______________ This cookbook is about a year in the kitchen. A year of grief and hope and change; of fancy fish pie, cardamom-cinnamon chicken rice, chimichurri courgettes, quadruple carb soup, blackberry miso birthday cake, and sticky toffee Guinness brownie pudding. A year of loss, and every kind of romance, and fried jam sandwiches. A year of seedlings and pancakes. A year of falling in love. A year of recipes. A year, in other words, of minor miracles. The Year of Miracles by bestselling author Ella Risbridger is more than just a cookbook; like her award-winning Midnight Chicken, every page is a transporting blend of recipes and life story. This is about what happens when you've lived through the worst thing you could have imagined - and how you can still cook, and eat, and love. _______________ 'Love, sorrow, grief and how cooking can get you through. Ella Risbridger has such a sincere and distinctive voice. A book full of wisdom.' - DIANA HENRY 'Gut-wrenching and beautiful' - VOGUE 'Both a beautiful memoir and a hugely comforting cookbook' - MARIAN KEYESElla Risbridger's sequel (sort of) to the bestselling cookbook Midnight ChickenBoth a beautiful memoir and a hugely comforting cookbook'The most talented British debut writer in a generation'The Year of Miracles is just as wonderful. It's about loss, grief, love, hope and how cooking gets you through. It's like treasure. The recipes are excellent'Recipes that celebrate what it is to be alive, even when life is in turmoil, showing how making simple food with a friend can be all the reassurance you need to lift your day''Gut-wrenching and beautiful''The most beautiful book about food I've read in a recent history of reading the most beautiful books about food.''A really important and beautiful book''It's hugely comfortable and beautiful and also full of great recipes''Ella Risbridger's new book is magical''[A] moving month-by-month chronicle of recipes [. a] groundbreaking female chef'