Like Water For Chocolate

This magical, mythical, moving story of love, sacrifice and simmering sensuality is something I shall savour for a long time

Maureen Lipman

It's a joy... it has an energetic charm that's quite impossible to resist

Literary Review

If originality, a compelling tale and an adventure in the kitchen are what you crave, Like Water For Chocolate serves up the full helping

Carla Matthews, San Francisco Chronicle

A wondrous, romantic tale, fuelled by mystery and superstitition as well as by the recipes that introduce each chapter

Los Angeles Times

Exuberant... for those who like their wines full-bodied and their meals rich and zesty... earthly secrets of strength, suffering, passion and cooking in a humorous and well-drawn portrait of a woman who loves as well as she cooks

Washington Post

Charming, instructive, savoury

The Times

Subverts macho morality with refreshingly unexpected narrative twists magical realism... pacing that rivals Romancing the Stone

Maureen Freely

An enchanting book, an open-eyed fairy story

Barbara Trapido

Wonderful... hard to put down... it is rare to come across a book so unusual

Steve Vines, South China Morning Post

'It's a joy...it has an energetic charm that's quite impossible to resist'

Literary Review

'If originality, a compelling tale and an adventure in the kitchen are what you crave, Like Water For Chocolate serves up the full helping'

Carla Matthews, San Francisco Chronicle

'Wonderful...hard to put down...it is rare to come across a book so unusual'

Steve Vines, South China Morning Post

'This magical, mythical, moving story of love, sacrifice and simmering sensuality is something I shall savour for a long time'

Maureen Lipman