Book: A Stranger in my Mother’s Kitchen

A Stranger in my Mother’s Kitchen, made over a five year period, is an intimate exploration of absence, memory, personal history and the grieving process, born from the yearning as a daughter to reconnect with my mother after her death. Told through photographs, writing about grief and cooking my mother's recipes, it shares a universal story of loss whilst also celebrating an historical food legacy.

Published by Dewi Lewis and beautifully designed by Loose Joints. It includes colour photographs, writings on grief, text contributions and a selection of printed facsimile archival recipes as inserts. But it is not a cookbook. The carefully designed form unpacks layers of memory, grief and time. The recipes are tucked into the pages like a scrapbook of culinary memories. It invites viewers to pause, reflect, and feel an emotional connection to a shared human experience.

Featured in The FT Magazine, The Guardian, Photomonitor and shortlisted for the Kraszna Krausz Book Awards 2023 and exhibited at Photo London 2023 and the V&A Museum 2024. 

This book is nearly sold out, a few copies are available through my Book Stop.

Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2022

Designed by Loose Joints

Softback OTA-bound sewn

Softcover with tip-in and flaps

275 x 218mm, 176 pages

43 colour photographs

17 recipe inserts and texts