Lunch With Madame Murat

Mary Moody's love affair with the south-west of France is well known – in her memoirs 'Au Revoir', 'Last Tango In Toulouse' and 'The Long Hot Summer', the countryside she calls home for much of the year provides a glorious backdrop to the sometimes turbulent events in her life.

In this beautiful book, illustrated with over 200 gorgeous photographs taken by Vivienne Cole, Mary takes us on a personal journey to a place she has come to know intimately during her time in France – Madame Murat's, the small family restaurant run by Jeanne Murat in the village of Pomarède.

Lunch with Madame Murat is a celebration – and evocation – of a restaurant that typifies the charms and pleasures of the French countryside, describing its one-hundred year existence, its traditions, and above all, its food. It is also an exploration of the wider countryside that makes up the Lot, Mary's beloved département in France's south-west.

Part travelogue, part history, part culinary adventure, 'Lunch With Madame Murat' is a captivating look at the region in France that won Mary Moody's heart, and a stunning visual journey through the riches of life and food in rural France.