Hearts, Tarts & Rascals

by Jonathan Wild

Hearts, Tarts & Rascals is the book the family said they would never write. It takes the reader into the very private world behind the scenes at Bettys Café Tea Rooms. The book begins with a family tragedy – an act of heroism in a blazing mill – and follows an orphaned survivor to an unexpected conclusion: the founding of one of the best-loved tea rooms in the world.

Jonathan Wild, Bettys present family chairman, has scoured the family and company archives to assemble this book of stories and memorabilia from Bettys past and present. Amongst the cream hearts, curd tarts, and fat rascals for which the Yorkshire tea rooms are famous, many a mystery lurks, none more intriguing than the identity of Betty herself.

Follow Bettys and its founding family through two world wars, the roaring twenties, the swinging sixties and all the naughty but nice decades in between in this 100 page full-colour book.