Lilla's Feast

Frances Osborne studied Law at Oxford and trained as a barrister and journalist. She is married to the current Chancellor of the Exchequer. She lives in West London with her family. LILLA'S FEAST was her first family memoir.

"Passionately written and compelling, Frances Osborne's impressive debut is a wonderful read. The extraordinary life of this ordinary woman is a tumultuous feast of the senses" -- Santa Montefiore "Lilla's Feast is a wonderful, inspiring book, part page-turner, part history of the British Empire in the Far East, Frances Osborne perfectly captures the stories of a lost generation of women" -- Amanda Foreman "Osborne tells the story of her great-granny's life with page-turning brio" Sunday Telegraph "A wonderfully evocative, vivid, distilled book" Tatler "Powerfully imagined... Aromas of the spicy dishes Lilla learned to cook during her years in the Far East seem to cling to these pages, infusing the narrative with exoticism" The Times