Guts: A memoir of food, failure and taking impossible chances by Melissa Leong – Our Review

Our Review…

This memoir is a raw, darkly funny, and beautifully authentic book, that gives Melissa Leong, gold logic winner and the first female MasterChef judge the opportunity to tell her story.

Peppered with her treasured recipes to mark the chapters, it is a truly spectacular reading experience.

Leong speaks of her experience growing up, racism throughout her career and the mental health challenges that have marked her heartache.

This book is a well written memoir, that is filled with vulnerability as Melissa shares abuse that had a profound effect on her sense of self. While also writing with a dark humour that can often be described as a, ‘if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry’ approach to coping with life.

With snippets of her foodie advice and general life lessons, to beloved recipes, honest stories of failure and pain, and unrelenting tenacity and a desire to create a life of one’s own.

Guts is the gorgeous yet gritty life of Leong so far, with many more thrilling chapters to come.

Review by Lydia @ Great Escape Books