It's like Fight Club meets The Great British Bake Off - NPR
Lois Clary is a software engineer. She codes all day and collapses at night into her sofa, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the local takeaway from which she orders dinner every evening - that is, until the brothers are forced out of business. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their famous bread. She must keep it alive, feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Lois is no baker, but soon, not only is she eating her own homemade, but she's initiated into a fantastical and possibly fantastically sinister underground world: a secret market that aims to fuse home-cooked food with cutting-edge technology...
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781786494115
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 237 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
Edition: Main
Genius-level observant, wonderfully written and absolutely brilliant - Daily Mail
Both comforting and thrillingly odd... Shelve it alongside Where'd You Go Bernadette and your hipster cookbooks, and savour - Guardian
It's like Fight Club meets The Great British Bake Off - NPR
Delightful... Smart, hip and witty - Washington Post
An enjoyable slice of fiction, spread thickly with plot - Financial Times
Merciless, ingenious and hilarious. - Daily Mail
When I first got this book, I was a bit conflicted about what exactly it would entail. I found myself wondering if it was a cleverly-disguised cookery book, or something informative about sourdough.
Well, it was bit...
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Lonely, overworked and underfed, Lois Clary is stuck in a rut. Working long hours programming an artificial arm, her only social interactions are with her “Slurry” eating co-workers and her daily telephone call to her... More
I really enjoyed the first few chapters of this book which is before Lois receives the sourdough starter but after that it all became a little too silly for my tastes. This book is definitely unique and unlike... More
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