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Season to Taste
Season to Taste: A Novel | Natalie Young
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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.
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kgriffith
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Quirky, well-written, and more than a bit bizarre. Worth the time if you can give over to your macabre side and appreciate dark humor built primarily on recipes for cooking and eating your late spouse. Some potentially problematic stuff around mental health that I‘m not going to go back and analyze, but on the whole, well done and well narrated.

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kgriffith
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“207. If you feel suddenly sluggish, try to remember that you are a) out of your comfort zone, and b) digesting a brain.
208. Try not to dwell unnecessarily on this, or make it more than it needs to be.”

SandyW Sounds like a fun if somewhat macabre read. Stacked. Thanks. 6y
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kgriffith
Season to Taste: A Novel | Natalie Young
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I think this would be even more satisfying if I were a straight woman this week.

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andrew61
Season to Taste: A Novel | Natalie Young
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#fiercefeb #girlsjustwanttohavefun
A few years after reading this very dark comic tale im still not sure what to think - still there were some interesting recipes and luckily my wife didn't want to read it after me.

Centique Whoa what a title! 😳😳 6y
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LauraJ
Season to Taste: A Novel | Natalie Young
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A middle-aged woman kills her husband and ruminates on her life as she cooks and eats her way through his corpse. Not as interesting as it should be. The murderess is so detached from herself that it‘s hard to connect with the book. The story briefly comes alive at the end, showing what Season to Taste could have been.

No_One Wow! Interesting premise! 7y
Clwojick Ugh I thought this would be so much better than it was... 7y
Clwojick I thought it would be funny.... 7y
queerbookreader God that sounds so interesting too!! Bummer it wasn't a great read for you 7y
TheNextBook What in the 😳? Did you say she eats her way through his corpse!? And it isnt a comedy!? Nope. 😂 7y
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Foragingfantasy
Season to Taste: A Novel | Natalie Young
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Randomly picked this up at a thrift store with several other books, the other day... It's says it's about a woman who murders and eats her husband. ?? All I could think was, "Goodbye Earl!"

DivineDiana Oh my goodness! 😬 7y
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