‘Cooking helps me remember’: How Dr Clare Bailey Mosley found her way back to the kitchen after losing Michael

Clare Bailey Mosley, whose kitchen has become both refuge and reminder - (Lezli+Rose)

It really happened! I was sitting at the desk where I am now, and I stood up. I was rummaging through the books at the back of the shelves and there was just this loud clunk,” says Dr Clare Bailey Mosley, remembering the day she wrote the introduction to her new cookbook, The Fast 800 Favourites.

“It was one of the chocolate bars he’d asked me to hide. It was a message from another world, really.”