Style icon India Hicks's charming take onentertaining, featuring dreamy tablescapes,recipes, and enjoyable family anecdotes.Daughter of the late David Hicks and goddaughterto Prince Charles, India Hicks is known for herirreverent take on style. In her previous books, sheinvited readers into her homes on Harbour Islandand in England. For her third book, India pres-ents her own slightly madcap spin on entertaining.Organized by meal, the book begins marvelouslywith the most important meal of the day cocktailhour and ends with breakfast. In between, there arefamily suppers and big dinners, birthday cakes andChristmas crackers, great British breakfasts, quickteas and long lunches, mustard pots as vases, andbedcovers for tablecloths. Like India, these stories arefull of personality, from the Panic Dinner (or what todo when you suddenly have a crowd descending) tothe Naked Cake (cake decorating for the harried oruntalented) to a White Christmas in the Bahamas.Each celebration includes clever advice and inspi-ration for place settings, homemade flower arrange-ments, table design, and more. These are parties thatmake use of what is on hand, whether it's beach towelsthrown down a long table, children's candy piled incups on a tray, or massing palm fronds collected fromthe lawn. Beautifully photographed and embellishedhere and there with a bit of Hicks family lore, thebook is rounded out with a sprinkling of recipes fromIndia's beloved cook, Claire Williams, fondly knownas Top Banana, and other family members, from tradi-tional English fare such as Victoria Sponge to tropicaltreats such as the Marquess's Banana Daiquiri.