This is a story about Clare, Louisa and Chris. And sometimes Paul, and less often, Beth. It is about what to do when your husband tells you that he doesn't love you anymore. And what to do when your wife leaves you after too many rounds of IVF. It's about helping your new friend with her funeral catering business, and discovering that, sometimes, the most unlikely of pairings are the very, very best. It is about food that is outrageously good and comforting to sad people.

Catering, like life, doesn't always go according to plan, and as Clare, Louisa and Chris's stories become more intertwined, they learn that life will always manage to break in to remind you of just how good it can be. And, for once, not being sensible, and throwing away everything you know. This is a book about living. After all, the thing about death is that it makes life important.

In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Dianne Yarwood about how opposites attract and even complement each other, the skill in finding the right tone for food at a wake, and plenty of great food ideas for celebrating life and death.