THE EX-BOYFRIENDS FAVOURITE RECIPE FUNERAL COMMITTEE PB – SAKI KAWASHIRO

p ‘Touching, funny, and beautiful, Kawashiro has a wonderful gift for bringing the reader into the story’ i b Booklist /b /i /p p b What ingredients do you need to cure a broken heart? This soul-nourishing comfort read is for anyone who has loved and lost – and wants to love again. /b /p p b For fans of /b i b Butter, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, What You Are Looking For Is In The Library, I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki /b /i b and /b i b Before The Coffee Gets Cold. /b /i /p p br / Momoko thought her boyfriend was her soulmate. She believed he was going to propose. Instead, he broke things off at a love hotel. br / br / So she does what many broken-hearted people do – she gets incredibly drunk. So drunk that she passes out in a nearly empty cafe. When she wakes, she pours her heart out to Iori, the curious and impossibly handsome manager and Hozumi, a Buddhist monk in training and cafe regular. /p p As Momoko describes how her ex loved her cooking, the manager decides to allow her to slip into the kitchen and cook up his favourite dish: a delicious butter chicken curry. Momoko realizes that this combination of cooking and sharing has stopped the flow of her constant tears. And the manager has a brilliant idea: what if they started doing this regularly, inviting customers to share stories about heartbreak while cooking dishes that held significance in their relationships? /p p And so, an unconventional therapy group, the ‘Ex-Boyfriend’s Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee’ is born . . . br / br / /p