"The Story of a Boy's Hunger"
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.
Freddie Highmore
Nigel Slater
Ken Stott
Dad
Victoria Hamilton
Mum
Oscar Kennedy
Young Nigel Slater
Helena Bonham Carter
Mrs Potter
Matthew McNulty
Josh
Rob Jarvis
Fishmonger
Selina Cadell
Ruby
Amy Marston
Primary School Teacher
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.
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