Augusta - Life, Love and Food

by Michael Cable and Jill Todd

This is more than just the remarkable rags to riches story of a peasant girl who worked her way up to become the joint proprietor, with husband Lino, of one of the finest, friendliest and most renowned country pub restaurants in England. It is also the wonderfully inspiring love story of childhood sweethearts from the humblest of backgrounds who left home together and set out to seek a new and better life for themselves in what must have seemed, at the time, a distant, foreign land.

This book, which also contains more than 30 of Augusta’s legendary recipes, as well as tributes from friends, family and customers, celebrates the hard work, the determination, the personal sacrifices and above all, the special bond of life and togetherness that enabled the couple to succeed beyond their wildest dreams.

Available from: The Butcher’s Arms, Priors Hardwick, Southam, Warwickshire, CV47 7SN
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Price £20 plus £2.50 p&p. All profits from the book will go to the Royal Marsden Hospital.