"Hindsâ depiction of Pigletâs frantic appetite is piercing, capturing her insatiable need for the lushly described food. This is a listen like slightly burnt caramelâsharp and dark, yet still luscious."âAudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetitesâand the truth about having it all
Outside of a childhood nickname she canât shake, Pigletâs rather pleased with how her lifeâs turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, sheâs got lovely, loyal friends and a handsome fiancÃĐ, Kit, whose rarefied family she actually, most of the time, likes, despite their upper-class eccentricities. One of the many, many things Kit loves about Piglet is the delicious, unfathomably elaborate meals sheâs always cooking.
But when Kit confesses a horrible betrayal two weeks before theyâre set to be married, Piglet finds herself suddenly...hungry. The couple decides to move forward with the wedding as planned, but as it nears and Piglet balances family expectations, pressure at work, and her quest to make the perfect cake, she finds herself increasingly unsettled, behaving in ways even she canât explain. Torn between a life sheâs always wanted and the ravenousness that comes with not getting what she knows she deserves, Piglet is, by the day of her wedding, undone, but also ready to look beyond the lies we sometimes tell ourselves to get by.
A stylish, uncommonly clever novel about the things we want and the things we think we want, Piglet is both an examination of womenâs often complicated relationship with food and a celebration of the messes life sometimes makes for us.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.