Food Person
  • Published: 3 August 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529154870
  • Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $42.99

Food Person

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8 Jul 2025
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3 Jul 2025
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3 Jul 2025
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3 Aug 2025
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THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA meets Nora Ephron

'Think Bridget Jones if she were in The Bear' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

'Slyly satirical and richly comedic' EVENING STANDARD

'Literally the most delicious beach read ... The Devil Wears Prada for devoted foodies' PLUM SYKES

'Utterly delicious and satisfying to the end' MARY ROACH

'A savoury meal of a debut. Charming, witty ... You'll want seconds!' STEVEN ROWLEY

When twenty-something Isabella Pasternack is fired from her job at a digital food magazine, she accepts a thankless job for the paycheck: ghostwrite the very past-due cookbook for a once-beloved thirty-something actress, Molly Babcock.

Molly, trying to repair her reputation after a serious downward spiral, meets Isabella’s earnest attempts to connect with inconsistency, indifference, and cruelty. But, for the first time in her life, Isabella is determined to dig in her heels, and figure out if there’s anything Molly actually knows how to cook (or even likes to eat).

Isabella’s slice of contemporary New York is filled out by a cast including: Isabella’s acerbic roommate and best friend Owen, her widowed mother whose cooking isn’t only bad, it’s dangerous, and of course a handsome chef love interest. Hilarious and hopeful, at its core, Food Person is about commitment to self-discovery, the beauty of community, and how unapologetically forging your own future can lead to everyone getting the ending they deserve. And of course, very delicious food.
  • Published: 3 August 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529154870
  • Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $42.99
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I scarfed this book in a single seating. Utterly delicious and satisfying to the end

Mary Roach

Literally the most delicious beach read - sharp, funny and bang on trend, this novel is The Devil Wears Prada for devoted foodies. I had to stop every other chapter to cook a chocolate souffle or brownies!

Plum Sykes

Adam Roberts made me, someone who formerly thought Chef Boyardee was the ultimate celebrity chef, an honest to goodness FOOD PERSON in this savoury meal of a debut. Charming, witty and served with all the food industry insight the author's decades of experience brings to the table. You'll want seconds! I can't wait to see what Adam dishes up next

Steven Rowley

At turns hilarious, harrowing, and heartwarming, this wonderful debut will be beloved by food people everywhere - and if you are not a food person already, it may make one out of you

J. Ryan Stradal

Food Person is a debut that's about as perfect as they come. Roberts takes everything you think you know about the food world and turns it on its head, whipping up a hilarious and slyly moving novel about ambition, friendship, and soufflés gone awry. Get ready for a riotous romp

Grant Ginder

Think Bridget Jones if she were in The Bear

Sunday Times Style

Slyly satirical and richly comedic, the protagonist in Adam Roberts' debut novel is quite the pastiche of a modern gastronomist

A Summer Read of 2025, Evening Standard
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