Alice loves to cook. She believes the secret of good food is to cook with passion.

Her love affair with cookery has taken her from her parents’ seaside hotel, to Paris and then one of Dublin’s finest restaurants. Then she marries Liam, and is happy to hang up her chef’s hat and cook for her family and friends instead.

But now she’s cooking for one!

Her marriage to Liam over, it’s high time she learns to stand on her own two feet and begin again …

Alice opens The Martello School of Cookery and a group of total strangers learn from her to create food that is tasty and delicious. And in the comfort of her kitchen they discover, not only how to cook - but recipes for life …