Nigella Lawson
it almost feels like a bit of a cop-out to choose the classics...
The best-selling cook and culinary expert on her passion for Dickens...
Nigella Lawson may have sold hunderds of thousands of books advising us how to eat, and how to do it well, but what's the book that she wishes she'd written?
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
It's the otherness of the book that I liked so much. It's the best and the truest novel that has ever been written. It's an extraordinary story about what it is to be human and what it is to grow into the person you are. I came to Dickens quite late in life and I was put off by having read him when I was too young. I was also put off by that period drama jocularity: actually the savagery of his landscape and the utter misery, both social and personal that he understands so well is lost.
