In the Kitchen
Ali, Monica Readers and reviewers have been stunned by the breadth of humanity in Monica Ali's fiction. She has been compared to Dickens and called one of three British novelists who are "the voice of a generation” by Time magazine. Here, in In the Kitchen, she vividly paints a portrait of mini UN assembly that staff the restaurant in London's Imperial Hotel. Gabriel Lightfoot, executive chef at the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, is trying to run a tight k...