Can You See Where I'm Coming From?

Space Dust and Spangles. Overboiled cabbage. Clotted cream. Placki ziemniaczane. Can You See Where I'm Coming From? examines the ingredients that have made Melanie Branton who she is, from a 1970s childhood in a family somewhere in the grey area between working and lower-middle class to a Dickensian boarding school, from bogus Cornishness to a stint teaching in Poland. Slaloming between belly laughs and gut-punching candour, this is a book about family, class, identity, romantic disappointment and soaring ambition. And vegetables.