The Ex-Boyfriend's Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee : A magical, soul-nourishing comfort read for anyone who has loved and lost and loved again. - Saki Kawashiro

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`Touching, funny, and beautiful, Kawashiro has a wonderful gift for bringing the reader into the story' BooklistWhat ingredients do you need to cure a broken heart? This soul-nouri shing comfort read is for anyone who has loved and lost - and wants to love again. For fans of Butter, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, What You Are Looking For Is In The Library, I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki and Before The Coffee Gets Cold. Momoko thought her boyfriend was her soulmate. She believed he was going to propose. Instead, he broke things off at a love hotel. So she does what many broken-hearted people do - she gets incredibly drunk. So drunk that she passes out in a nearly empty caf�. When she wakes, she pours her heart out to Iori, the curious and impossibly handsome manager and Hozumi, a Buddhist monk in training and caf� regular.�As Momoko describes how her ex loved her cooking, the manager decides to allow her to slip into the kitchen and cook up his favourite dish: a delicious butter chicken curry. Momoko realizes that this combination of cooking and sharing has stopped the flow of her constant tears. And the manager has a brilliant idea: what if they started doing this regularly, inviting customers to share stories about heartbreak while cooking dishes that held significance in their relationships?�And so, an unconventional therapy group, the `Ex-Boyfriend's Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee' is born . . . � Show more