Prue Leith describes herself as greedy in all senses of the word. Cook caterer restaurateur food writer journalist novelist businesswoman teacher television presenter charity worker lover wife & mother she has certainly been greedy for life. Born in South Africa the daughter of a well-known actress Prue came to London in the early 1960s set up a successful catering company & later opened Leiths Restaurant a food lovers oasis in Londons then gastronomic desert. By the mid-seventies she was a regular food columnist on the Daily Mail had published several cookbooks & opened Leiths School of Food & Wine. But it wasnt all work. For thirteen years she had a secret affair with the married man who was to be her husband for another twenty-five years. She writes movingly of the anguish for both families; of her longing for children; the birth of her son Daniel & the adoption of her daughter Li-Da. Prue writes with relish humour & honesty. Whether she is running her own businesses or sitting on the boards of public companies; founding charities or leading institutions her down-to-earth attitude to triumph & disaster is an inspiration. She is forthright about her love life; her mothers senility; her husbands smoking himself to death; the theft of her savings & falling in love at sixty-six with a manic-depressive. Above all Relish reflects one lucky womans incredible zest for life.