Piglet

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Her life is so full, so why is she hungry?


For Piglet – an unshakable childhood nickname – getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss – effortless hosts, planning a covetable wedding ... But if a life looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Thirteen days before they are due to be married, Kit reveals an awful truth, cracking the façade Piglet has created. It has the power to strip her of the life she has so carefully built, so smugly shared. To do something about it would be to self-destruct. But what will it cost her to do nothing?

As the hours count down to their wedding, Piglet is torn between a growing appetite and the desire to follow the recipe, follow the rules. Surely, with her husband, she could be herself again. Wouldn’t it be a waste for everything to curdle now?

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‘A high-wire exploration of control, pleasure and desire’ Chloë Ashby
‘A book that tears at the surface of things to reveal the vast, messy truth of a body with a beating heart’ Catherine Newman
‘It takes audacity, all kinds of courage to produce a novel as ferocious as Piglet. It made me so hungry’ Lamorna Ash


©2024 Lottie Hazell (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

  • Very wise, and so wonderful on food and cooking it should probably come with a hunger trigger-warning. I loved it.

    Daily Mail

  • A cunning critique of the expectations that society continues to heap on young women.

    Financial Times

  • A deliciously dark tour de force

    Red

  • Some novels just get food right … Hazell understands just how connected culinary and literary pleasures are … [There is] much to devour in Piglet: set scenes of stomach-churning awkwardness, razor-sharp analysis of class, even an unforgettable description of food on the verge of rot.

    Sunday Times

  • Sublime descriptions of food… a quirky story of class, appetite and body image

    Good Housekeeping

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