Kinsale Food Festival provided ingredients for novel idea
“Kinsale left an enormous impression on me,” James says. “It wasn’t just the town and its restaurants, both of which are so gorgeous, but, really, the whole buzz of activity around the Gourmet Festival that set me thinking about somehow bringing it all together in a book.”
Having owned catering businesses, including a pub, a hotel and restaurant, Caroline lives in Cheshire, where she writes. Her debut novel, Coffee, Tea, The Gypsy & Me, was set in north-west England, in a country house hotel during a gypsy horse fair. The book was number three on Amazon’s bestseller list.
