Season to Taste: Or How to Eat Your Husband by Natalie Young
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Blurb: 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? (Tinder Press, February 2014)
Anita Sethi, The Guardian
“As Lizzie gorges herself yet is never quite fulfilled, this macabre and grotesque novel engrossingly depicts not only bodily appetite but the deepest emotional hunger pangs of being human.”
India Knight, The Sunday Times
“As a keen reader of thrillers, both literary and otherwise, I also had difficulty with the logic at play. Woman slices up and eats her husband: fine, but you have to keep me with it. Who would roast a hand? Nobody, that’s who. You would chop a body up and then surely stick the hand down the grinder, or even put it in the bin … Natalie Young writes nicely, and does not fall into the obvious trap of keeping the narrative completely linear — it does not, thankfully, culminate in some clunking Freudian disposal of the head and penis of her husband. I found it such a sad and angry howl of a book.”
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