Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband
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3.6 • 7 Ratings
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
Always let the meat rest under foil for at least ten minutes before carving...
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.
Customer Reviews
Season to taste...
I heard this book being reviewed on the Simon Mayo show on radio 2 and was intrigued. As a former resident of Seale I was keen to spot any familiar old haunts. However, I became increasingly disturbed by the story itself, it was both gruesome and intriguing. At no time did I feel relaxed and I cannot say that I 'enjoyed' the book. Rather, I was relieved to finish it. I did appreciate the form of the book and found myself warming to the main character, Lizzie. That said, I wouldn't recommend it and prefer to file it to memory. The author writes so beautifully, a pity about the subject matter though.