Anyone for Seconds?

'Entirely original, this makes us laugh a lot and take a long look at our lives. I absolutely adored it!' KATIE FFORDE

'A treat of the highest order ... Graham's merciless eye for the absurd misses nothing' WENDY HOLDEN, Daily Mail

The laugh-out-loud sequel to Perfect Meringues - can former queen of the TV cooks Lizzie Partridge claw her way back into the nation's hearts?

Life has been going downhill for ex-TV chef Lizzie Partridge ever since she spectacularly ended her television career by throwing a chocolate mousse at the host of Midlands This Morning. Her partner Tom has left her, Nigella and Jamie have got the cookery world sewn up, and now her cookery column - her last bit of work - has been axed. Surely the only way is up from here?

In a desperate bid for sympathy and attention she runs away, from the gas bill and the mouse under the sink, and in wet and wintry Aberystwyth she experiences a brush with her past and a glimmer of new prospects. And when her nephew's girlfriend - a TV producer - has the bright idea to reunite her with her former nemesis and target of the mousse attack in a new show, it seems like things could be going Lizzie's way again after all!

‘A laugh out loud must-read. Lizzie Partridge is hilarious and outspoken, but also irresistibly human. More, please!’ - Hilary Boyd

‘Anyone For Seconds was as brilliant as I knew it would be. Everything Laurie writes gets it absolutely on the nail. She's a comedy genius but with a tender touch for poignancy too’ - Judy Astley

‘What a wonderful, life-enhancing, truly funny writer she is’ - Elizabeth Buchan

‘One of my favourite writers’ - Wendy Holden

‘She has wit and insight to match Nick Hornby, and the entertainment value of Helen Fielding’ - Independent

‘Graham's style is riveting. Hilarious one-liners fall in quick succession’ - The Times

‘Superlative. The writing sparkles from first to last’ - Sunday Telegraph

‘One of my favourite writers, now and ever’ - Libby Purves