<p><b>What ingredients do you need to cure a broken heart? This soul-nourishing comfort read is for anyone who has loved and lost - and wants to love again.</b></p><p><b>For fans of </b><i><b>Butter, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, What You Are Looking For Is In The Library, I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki</b></i><b> and </b><i><b>Before The Coffee Gets Cold.</b></i></p><p><br />Momoko thought her boyfriend was her soulmate. She believed he was going to propose. Instead, he broke things off at a love hotel.<br /><br />So she does what many broken-hearted people do - she gets incredibly drunk. So drunk that she passes out in a nearly empty cafe. When she wakes, she pours her heart out to Iori, the curious and impossibly handsome manager and Hozumi, a Buddhist monk in training and cafe regular. </p><p>As Momoko describes how her ex loved her cooking, the manager decides to allow her to slip into the kitchen and cook up his favourite dish: a delicious butter chicken curry. Momoko realizes that this combination of cooking and sharing has stopped the flow of her constant tears. And the manager has a brilliant idea: what if they started doing this regularly, inviting customers to share stories about heartbreak while cooking dishes that held significance in their relationships? </p><p>And so, an unconventional therapy group, the 'Ex-Boyfriend's Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee' is born . . .<br /><br /> </p>