She’s Leaving Home by Monica Trapaga is a cookery book with a difference. Created for Monica’s eldest daughter Lil, when she was leaving home, the book is both practical and beautiful. As well as containing an assortment of delicious tried-and-tested family recipes and useful information on food, the book is imaginatively illustrated too. With drawings and paintings by Meridith Gastown, together with collages created by Monica herself, every page feeds both the appetite and eye.