Space Dust and Spangles. Overboiled cabbage. Clotted cream. Placki ziemniaczane. Can You See Where I'm Coming From? examines the ingredients that have made Melanie Branton who she is, from a 1970s childhood in a family somewhere in the grey area between working and lower-middle class to a Dickensian boarding school, from bogus Cornishness to a stint teaching in Poland. Slaloming between belly laughs and gut-punching candour, this is a book about family, class, identity, romantic disappointment and soaring ambition. And vegetables.