Author(s): Gilly Smith

Biography

Strikingly beautiful and with an unashamed passion for food, Nigella Lawson continues to fascinate and inspire. Her cookery books are international bestsellers, she is a TV presenter in the UK and America, designer-kitchenware tycoon and mother of two small children. To many she has become an icon of how to live life to the full. Yet, her success conceals a dramatic story of family grief that seems impossible for one person to bear. Her beautiful mother died of liver cancer when Nigella was just twenty-five; her thirty-two year old sister Thomasina died of breast cancer only days before Nigella gave birth to her first child, Cosima; and her second child, Bruno, was six months old when her beloved husband, journalist John Diamond, was diagnosed with throat cancer.