This book is like a warm cup of tea. Comforting and a fairly passive read, the story (or stories) just fall into your lap without much effort. This book is definitely one to reread. Each part of the book focuses on a different woman at the Suppers, this means that as the book progresses you understand more and more about each character and understand the nature of conversation with each one. This book feels like a wise aunt telling their story, passing down what they've learnt about their lives. The description of food in this book is like nothing I've ever read. There are paragraphs and pages dedicated to the method behind the dish or the flavours and you begin to appreciate that food is at the heart of it all. Within each story I felt there was a significant dish, or that the act of cooking was in some way important to each character.