Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband Synopsis
Meet Lizzie Prain. Ordinary housewife. Fifty-something. Lives in a cottage in the woods, with her dog Rita. Likes cooking, avoids the neighbours. Runs a little business making cakes. No one has seen Lizzie's husband, Jacob, for a few days. That's because last Monday, on impulse, Lizzie caved in the back of his head with a spade. And if she's going to embark on the new life she feels she deserves after thirty years in Jacob's shadow, she needs to dispose of his body. Her method appeals to all her practical instincts, though it's not for the faint-hearted. Will Lizzie have the strength to follow it through? Dark, funny and achingly human, Season to Taste is a deliciously subversive treat. In the shape of Lizzie Prain, Natalie Young has created one of the most remarkable heroines in recent fiction.
A stomach-turning and terrific novel...a brilliant and literal dissection of a marriage - The Times
Engrossingly depicts not only bodily appetite but the deepest emotional hunger pangs of being human...compulsively readable - Observer
Daring, groundbreaking and original - Irish Independent
One of the most talked-about books of the year...filled with black humour - Daily Mail
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About Natalie Young
Natalie Young worked for The Times for several years, and was then Books and Arts Editor of Prospect magazine. She is now a full-time mother and writer.
