Celina by Catherine Axelrad Groundswell Speaker 2024 Pippa Middlehurst (aka @Pippy Eats)

Pippa Middlehurst (aka @Pippy Eats) tells the story of building a bowl from the bottom up – with seasoning and sauce

Captain Wentworth

Patti Smith

impressive dinner-party dishes and wholesome weekend baking ideas

AtlanticISBN: 9781838953430Extent: 464 pages

Celina by Catherine Axelrad Groundswell Speaker 2024 Pippa Middlehurst (aka @Pippy Eats)In the late 1850s, Celina, aged fifteen, born into poverty, takes up work as a chambermaid for the Victor Hugo family living in exile in Guernsey. There she encounters the delicate balance between the professional and the personal, and the obligations placed upon her as her livelihood is at stake. Inspired by Hugo's cryptic diary notes and by letters from his wife, Catherine Axelrad restores to life the girl whose untimely death shook the Hugo family,