For more than thirty years I worked as a private chef in the world of private service- cooking for celebrities, billionaires, and the quietly powerful- Navigating personalities, and witnessing the strange rhythms of that world.
Now I write about it.
The Price Of Proximity
A Novel of a private Household
The Price of Proximity follows a private chef working inside the intimate world of a billionaire family. As he becomes increasingly trusted, he begins to realize that the closeness he spent his life chasing may open doors to power—but not the belonging he truly yearns for.
Inside the controlled rhythms of a private compound, loyalty and usefulness carry their own quiet currency. The deeper he moves into the family’s world, the more he confronts an unsettling truth: proximity is not the same as acceptance.
Elegant and perceptive, The Price of Proximity is a novel about class, ambition, and the quiet distance between power and belonging.
Matthew Gladstone is a former private chef with more than thirty years in private service. He is also the author of I’m Not High-Maintenance (As Long As Everything’s Perfect): A Chef’s Diary — 30 Years of Cooking, Kitchens, and Chaos.
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I’m Not High-Maintenance ( As Long As Everything’s Perfect. A Chef’s Diary- 30 Years of Cooking, Kitchens and Chaos
The stories exactly as they happened, told in the voice of the chef who lived them.