The Underdog by Felicity Cloake SIGNED COPY

£16.99

ISBN: 9780008695293

Publication Date: 7 May 2026

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers

Sometimes life doesn’t follow a recipe… Katy is thirty-six, has recently been dumped by her dull-yet-deceitful fiancé and in a (not-unrelated) moment of madness, abandoned a Solid, Decently Paid Career to pursue her dream of becoming a chef. She finds herself making sandwiches in a north London café. Then, a gorgeous doctor strolls in and orders an espresso.

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The debut novel from the multi-award winning food writer!

Sometimes life doesn’t follow a recipe…After a year of expensive cookery school and months in Michelin-star kitchens blow-drying edible ferns for free, Katy finds herself making sandwiches (heritage duck egg and black garlic mayonnaise on sourdough, admittedly, but sandwiches all the same) and stuck in an ill-advised situationship with a twentysomething who thinks he’s his generation’s answer to Marco Pierre White.

Katy is briefly charmed when a gorgeous doctor strolls in… until she sees the scruffy mutt at his feet. Katy hates dogs — and Dr Dipesh never goes anywhere without Alan. Can she overlook this major red flag? Will she ever convince her mother she’s not having a midlife crisis? And, when a drunken mishap involving a restaurant critic turns Katy’s life upside down, will she ever see Dip, Alan or the inside of a kitchen again?

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Genre

Adult's Fiction

Format

Hardback