This is a conversation about the solace and joy that reading and cooking can bring us. About comfort reading, re-reading, and a favourite book of ours, Elizabeth Jane Howard's The Light Years. 

Germaine prescribes our letter writer a life-affirming graphic novel and Sophie a cold, simple and very very delicious Christmas lunch inspired by Mrs Cripps from our book.

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