A Taste For It

Monica McInerney

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A Taste For It
Author
Monica McInerney
Publisher
Penguin
Genre
Fiction
Released
03 April, 2006

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Synopsis

‘Céad Míle Fáilte,’ the Irish tourist brochures said. A hundred thousand welcomes.’A hundred thousand nightmares, more like it!Maura Carmody’s off on the trip of a lifetime. A talented chef, she’s travelling around Ireland for a month to promote Australian food and wine.Maura’s expecting a straightforward business trip. But what she gets is a whirlwind of mishaps, misunderstandings, rivals and revelations – and Dominic Hanrahan, who’s giving her plenty of food for thought.
Monica McInerney
About the author

Monica McInerney

One of the stars of Australian fiction, Monica McInerney is the author of the internationally bestselling novels A Taste for It, Upside Down Inside Out, Spin the Bottle, The Alphabet Sisters, Family Baggage, Those Faraday Girls, At Home with the Templetons, Lola's Secret, The House of Memories and a short story collection, All Together Now.Those Faraday Girls was the winner of the General Fiction Book of the Year prize at the 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards. In 2006 Monica was the ambassador for the Australian Government initiative Books Alive, with her novella Odd One Out.Monica grew up in a family of seven children in the Clare Valley of South Australia and has been living between Australia and Ireland for twenty years. She and her Irish husband currently live in Dublin.

Books by Monica McInerney

Lola's Secret
Monica McInerney

Lola's Secret

The House of Memories
Monica McInerney

The House of Memories

Hello from the Gillespies
Monica McInerney

Hello from the Gillespies

All Together Now
Monica McInerney

All Together Now

At Home with the Templetons
Monica McInerney

At Home with the Templetons

Family Baggage
Monica McInerney

Family Baggage

The Alphabet Sisters
Monica McInerney

The Alphabet Sisters

Those Faraday Girls
Monica McInerney

Those Faraday Girls

A Taste For It
Monica McInerney

A Taste For It

The Trip of a Lifetime
Monica McInerney

The Trip of a Lifetime

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