Supper Club

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Brought to you by Penguin.

WINNER of the GUARDIAN 'NOT THE BOOKER' PRIZE 2019

Selected in BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - Vogue, TIME, Vulture, Woman and Home

Devastatingly perceptive, savagely funny and wildly original - the essential coming-of-age story for our times. With the deadpan wit of Fleabag and ruthless insight of Cat Person, Lara Williams tells a tale of rage and joy, hunger and friendship, bodies and the space they take up in the world.

Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry - until the day she invents Supper Club.

Supper Club is a secret society for hungry women. Women who are sick of bad men and bad sex, of hinted expectations to talk less, take less, be less. So they gather after dark and feast until they are sick. They drink and dance and roar. And, month by month, their bodies expand.

At the centre of the Supper Club stands Roberta - cynical yet anxious, precocious and lost. She is seeking the answer to a simple question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?

This is a story about the hunger that never goes away. And it is a story about the people who make us what we are - who lead us astray and ultimately save us. You look hungry. Join the club.

Critics Review

  • A radical retake on the notion that women must starve themselves to meet society’s demands… Written with total glee and rollocking sense of unlimited possibility, Lara Williams is one to watch

    Stylist

  • Sophisticated, attentive, visceral, sensual…. Following in the footsteps of Elena Ferrante and Sally Rooney, Williams explores the shifting dynamics of female friendships

    Times Literary Supplement

  • Exquisite. Wise and generous, subtle and superbly attentive… The food in this book eats you, imparting a depth of flavour that resurfaces stylishly when you least expect it

    The New York Times

  • Cool and knowing, jam-packed with cultural references, not to mention mouthwatering recipes… Kicks back against the degradations and appetite-shaming strictures of a notionally feminist age

    Metro

  • Supper Club is SO GREAT. Utterly perfect on loneliness, isolation, friendship, love, appetite, body image. It’s about millennial women but I’m reading and nodding: ‘Whole Mood’

  • Powerful and original, insightful and moving… The voice feels akin to Sally Rooney’s: colloquial, precise, at once uneasy about its place in the world and determined to stand up for itself… Williams suggests convincingly that cooking is as rigorous and complex as any art form

    Guardian

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