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Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband

By: Natalie Young
Narrated by: Gemma Whelan
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Summary

 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.

(P)2014 Headline Digital©2014 Natalie Young Dark Humour Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Marriage Heartfelt
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Critic reviews

A stomach-turning and terrific novel...a brilliant and literal dissection of a marriage
Engrossingly depicts not only bodily appetite but the deepest emotional hunger pangs of being human...compulsively readable
Daring, groundbreaking and original
One of the most talked-about books of the year...filled with black humour
Stomach-churning and terrific
An enjoyable feast of anger - witty and poised (Deborah Levy, author of Swimming Home )
'Season to Taste is written in a laconic, pared-down style that immediately brings to mind Camus' L'Etranger. If that seems a somewhat grand comparison, it is not, for Young's book is one of those rare beasts - a literary novel of ideas written in simple language that could be both a university set text and a supermarket bestseller' (Tom Tivnan, The Bookseller)
Set to be one of the most talked about - and most gruesome - books of 2014
Young delivers an authentic portrait of a neglected marriage, and her light and compelling prose carries this macabre tale along
Season to Taste is a modern-day fable about the end of love and moving on. Natalie Young has given us a shockingly, thrillingly new vantage on a timeless story of marriage's demise (Stefan Merill Block, author of The Story of Forgetting)
2014's most talked-about novel
'Brilliantly disturbing... echoes of Roald Dahl's dark adult fiction... fascinating in the most gruesome way. Delicious!'
Move over Fifty Shades, there's a brand new genre whipping the publishing world into a murderous frenzy
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Would you listen to Season to Taste again? Why?

I probably would to pick up on anything I might have missed....

What did you like best about this story?

The fact that is was such an unexpected story...

What does Gemma Whelan bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Atmosphere...

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes....

Brilliant....

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I just could not get in to this book, it was just so slow and depressing !

awful gave up after 3 chapters

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What would have made Season to Taste better?

Significantly less of it

What could Natalie Young have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Told a story

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

The narration was OK

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Sleep

Any additional comments?

More a recipe book than a novel

Rubbish

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