An unexpected truth about her husband-to-be sends a woman on a hungry and searing journey of self-revelation in this ferocious, propulsive and cunningly crafted debut.
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?
Piglet is a searing, unforgettable and original debut which is taking readers by storm.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9781804992517
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 218 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
Very wise, and so wonderful on food and cooking it should probably come with a hunger trigger-warning. I loved it. - Daily Mail
A best debut novel of 2024 - Stylist
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
Dark, witty and very well-written (the descriptions of food are reminiscent of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn), Piglet is a satire that explores everything from class to body image - Independent
Brilliant on appetite, ambition, secrecy and shame. Engrossing. - Daily Mail, '60 of the best holiday reads for adults and children'
An insightful, stomach-churning debut novel about the corrosive power of secrets. - Mail on Sunday
If I owned a bookstore, I’d hand-sell Piglet to everyone ... Hazell’s prose is as tart and icy as lemon sorbet; her sentences are whipcord taut, drum tight ... the “will she or won’t she” isn’t just about the man and the wedding. It’s about whether Piglet ends up embracing a big life, full of richness and variety and good things to eat, or if she lets herself be crammed into that too-small dress. - Jennifer Weiner, The New York Times Book Review
Sublime descriptions of food... a quirky story of class, appetite and body image - Good Housekeeping
What a clever darkly funny story ‘Piglet’ is. The main character, Piglet, is centre stage throughout this compelling read. In this we see a young woman trying to pull the threads of her life together but in the... More
First of all - think of this as a contemporary cross between Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Heartburn by Nora Ephron that combines a love of food with an examination of one woman's faulty ambitions.
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I really enjoyed this novel! I tore through it within a day, and absolutely loved Piglet as a main character. (The name was jarringly cruel at first, but learning that Piglet was a nickname given in childhood made... More
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