Season to Taste

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.

Author: Natalie Young
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780316282482

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2014 pg. 40
Entertainment Weekly 07/18/2014 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 08/04/2014
New York Times Book Review 08/17/2014 pg. 24
Entertainment Weekly 12/12/2014 pg. 75

About the Author
Season to Taste is Natalie Young's second novel. Her first, We All Ran into Sunlight, was published in England in 2011. She lives in London.