The Surprising Life of Constance Spry

by Sue Shephard

Book Overview

A riveting new biography - the first for thirty years - of the influential floral artist and founder of the Cordon Bleu cookery school. Most people today, if they have heard of her, associate Constance Spry with the cookery book bearing her name. But Connie was much, much more than the author of a bestselling cookery book. She was deeply unconventional, extremely charming and very determined; Spry's life took her from the back streets of Victorian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0330544225
• ISBN13: 9780330544221
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.8"