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Season to Taste: A Novel
Written by Natalie Young
Narrated by Gemma Whelan
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A startling debut about the extraordinary end of a marriage and its very strange aftermath.
Meet Lizzie Prain. She is an ordinary housewife and lives with her lovely dog and her husband, who is a bit of a difficult fellow, in a quiet cottage in British country side. She's a wonderful cook. She enjoys her garden. And, occasionally, she makes cakes for the village parties.
No one has seen Lizzie's husband, Jacob, for a few days. That's because last Monday and Lizzie snapped and cracked him on the head with her garden shovel. No one quite misses Jacob though, and Lizzie surely didn't kill him on purpose. And now that she has the chance to live beyond his shadow, she won't neglect her good fortune. Over the course of the following month, with a body to get rid of and few fail-proof options at hand, Lizzie will channel her most practical instincts and do what she does best: she'll cook Jacob, and she'll eat him. But when Lizzie inadvertently befriends an isolated misfit, she will be tested: Will Lizzie turn to this new person for solace and abandon her desperate plan or will her new friend be an unwitting accessory to her crime?
Dark, unexpectedly funny, and achingly human, Season to Taste is a deliciously subversive treat. In Lizzie Prain, Natalie Young has created one of the most remarkable and surprising heroines in fiction.
Meet Lizzie Prain. She is an ordinary housewife and lives with her lovely dog and her husband, who is a bit of a difficult fellow, in a quiet cottage in British country side. She's a wonderful cook. She enjoys her garden. And, occasionally, she makes cakes for the village parties.
No one has seen Lizzie's husband, Jacob, for a few days. That's because last Monday and Lizzie snapped and cracked him on the head with her garden shovel. No one quite misses Jacob though, and Lizzie surely didn't kill him on purpose. And now that she has the chance to live beyond his shadow, she won't neglect her good fortune. Over the course of the following month, with a body to get rid of and few fail-proof options at hand, Lizzie will channel her most practical instincts and do what she does best: she'll cook Jacob, and she'll eat him. But when Lizzie inadvertently befriends an isolated misfit, she will be tested: Will Lizzie turn to this new person for solace and abandon her desperate plan or will her new friend be an unwitting accessory to her crime?
Dark, unexpectedly funny, and achingly human, Season to Taste is a deliciously subversive treat. In Lizzie Prain, Natalie Young has created one of the most remarkable and surprising heroines in fiction.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Uniquely weird, a little stomach-turning, but a good read. Well done! Pun intended.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I couldn’t follow this one to the end. It was much too disturbing. I like to sometimes escape reality in a good book, but this one left me wanting to escape a book back to reality.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Disgusting and macabre and not in a good way. I was waiting for it to be funny at some point through all the gross details, but it’s rather dull and the character who killed her husband is dull as well. If he was a controlling asshole who prevented you from living a good life that’s one thing, but she’s a boring homebody with a penchant for cannibalism. If you have a thing for eating people than by all means read this, but if the idea of baking and eating someone’s body parts turns your stomach give this a pass.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Very bizarre novel. A little disturbing in the detail. I kept thinking it must be going somewhere but it just didn't. The back and forth timeline was also hard to follow in the audio version. I wonder if it would have been less challenging in print?
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Published in paperback by Tinder Press on 3rd July 2014.Thanks to the Headline team at Bookbridgr for the ARC of this hotly-anticipated book that had been described as "This Year's Fifty Shades-Style Literary Sensation" by The Daily Express and "Beautifully Written with a Sprinkling of Humour and Twists that Keep You Turning the Page" by Stylist.I was so excited to receive a copy of the book that is setting the literary world slight at the moment. Season to Taste is an unusual and entirely original book; a page-turner that leaves the reader in a constant state of conflicting emotions - I wasn't sure if I wanted Lizzie to get careless and be discovered or if I wanted her to get away with her crime. I swayed from one end of the scale to the other and couldn't quite make up my mind.A thoroughly enjoyable and macabre read. 4.5/5 stars
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5After 30 years a woman decides that she has had enough of her marriage. Yes she kills her husband one day and eats him over a period of weeks. Its a short story set in a small town with few characters. In order to continue her life and not get found her only recourse is to cook him and eat him. Mostly the story centers on how she will accomplish the cooking/eating of her husband, and keeping people away for fear of being discovered. There are some explanations for her unhappiness in the marriage, and issues in her childhood - very little on the husband and their relationship, was it her or him - always two sides to a relationship. It was at first an uneasy read (as the husband has already been killed)and she has begun to figure out how to cook him. This was really not a fun read - two people who could not communicate spend 30 years together and then find that it was a waste of time. Only one person is moving on from this relationship and there's nothing likeable about her.This was a review book I won from Goodreads.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the strangest premise for a novel that I’ve read in a while, and I do enjoy a high quirk factor in a book. Season to Taste is the tale of a marriage gone wrong, and it starts off with a murder…One day Lizzie Prain snaps and murders her husband of thirty years with a spade. She then dismembers the body and freezes it. Her plan is to eat the evidence and then disappear off to a new life in Scotland. Lizzie takes the project of eating Jacob terribly seriously. She prepares each joint in as gourmet a fashion as she can manage, with plenty of herbs and spices to make it all seem more palatable. Preparation of the meat is difficult though …"It wasn’t helpful to look at the severed end where the bone emerged with flesh attached and shiny bits of cartilage. So she covered it up with the tea towel and focused on the knuckle area and fingers. She cleaned the nails with a nailbrush, rinsing in the sink; and then she brushed the skin with an oil brush to give it a good crisp. She rubbed all over the hand with olive oil and salt and then twisted the pepper grinder; and she laid his hand on a non-stick roasting tray, carefully straightening the fingers out."Yes, I’ll say it so you don’t have to – did she serve it ‘with fava beans and a nice chianti‘? There is no need for the author to refer to Hannibal Lecter, I’m sure she is happy for us to have a little joke with ourselves though.In the beginning, we are fascinated in a truly macabre way by Lizzie’s gourmet recipes to make her husband’s remains palatable, and the care with which she treats it. A couple of weeks later, Lizzie’s protein-rich diet is beginning to wear on her, and what was almost a last act of love is becoming a little more desperate. The recipes are mouthwatering in their awfulness though! In between the recipes come Lizzie’s lists to help keep herself strong and get through the project. After those we get to hear about her and Jacob. It wasn’t exactly a love match, but they did seem to sort of care for each other in a claustrophobic, self-centred way. Frankly, I found them both rather unlikeable, like the two main characters in Gone Girl; I had to read on to find out whether she gets away with it.This novel is destined to become a talking point with all who encounter it – talking with horror, with disbelief, even at times with sympathy, (well just a bit) – the author cleverly plays with all our emotions. When it does start to go a bit wrong as Lizzie’s overconfidence leads to too much fraternisation with the neighbours, I initially rubbed my hands with glee. My main criticism of this book is that I would have liked a stronger ending, but that would risk being rather formulaic, and that is something this quirky novel definitely is not! (8/10)