The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

Troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to uncover what he refers to as 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs'. He regards the unraveling of this classified information as the key to learning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. The ensuing journey takes him from Europe's festival city of Edinburgh to the foodie capital of America, San Francisco. But the hard-drinking, womanizing Skinner has a strange nemesis in the form of model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby. It is his unfathomable, obsessive hatred of Kibby that takes over everything, threatening to destroy not only Skinner and his mission but also those he loves most dearly. When Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating mystery virus, Skinner understands that his destiny is inextricably bound to that of his hated rival, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma. "The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs" is a gothic parable about the great obsessions of our time: food, sex and minor celebrity, and is a brilliant examination of identity, male rivalry and the need to belong in the world.

ISBN 022407587X   Pages 400 ISBN13 9780224075879 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 522 Publisher Vintage   Published in London Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd   Height (mm) 233 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 153 Publication date 03 Aug 2006   Spine width (mm) 31 DEWEY 823.914   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

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