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Dame Prue Leith, writer and broadcaster

Desert Island Discs

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The Affair With Rain Cruge

In 19 62, you moved to london and went on a cordonbleau cookery course. Then started a catering business from the bed sit where you were living. How did that go down with your landlady? She had no sense of smell so she never came up to the fourth floor. So by this time, prueyo,you'd fallen in love with the writer, rain cruge. He was 18 years older than you and a family friend. And you'd known him since childhood. Your mother and his wife, nan, were very close. Now you had an affair with rain that lasted 13 years. You eventually got married, am after rain and nan's

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