Lottie Hazell is a writer, contemporary literature scholar, and board game designer living in Warwickshire. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Loughborough University and her research considers food writing in twenty-first century fiction. Piglet is her first novel.
Very wise, and so wonderful on food and cooking it should probably
come with a hunger trigger-warning. I loved it.
*Daily Mail*
A best debut novel of 2024
*Stylist*
A cunning critique of the expectations that society continues to
heap on young women.
*Financial Times*
A deliciously dark tour de force
*Red*
Some novels just get food right ... Hazell understands just how
connected culinary and literary pleasures are ... [There is] much
to devour in Piglet: set scenes of stomach-churning awkwardness,
razor-sharp analysis of class, even an unforgettable description of
food on the verge of rot.
*Sunday Times*
Dark, witty and very well-written (the descriptions of food are
reminiscent of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn), Piglet is a satire that
explores everything from class to body image
*Independent*
Brilliant on appetite, ambition, secrecy and shame. Engrossing.
*Daily Mail, '60 of the best holiday reads for adults and
children'*
An insightful, stomach-churning debut novel about the corrosive
power of secrets.
*Mail on Sunday*
If I owned a bookstore, I’d hand-sell Piglet to everyone ...
Hazell’s prose is as tart and icy as lemon sorbet; her sentences
are whipcord taut, drum tight ... the “will she or won’t she” isn’t
just about the man and the wedding. It’s about whether Piglet ends
up embracing a big life, full of richness and variety and good
things to eat, or if she lets herself be crammed into that
too-small dress.
*Jennifer Weiner, The New York Times Book Review*
Sublime descriptions of food... a quirky story of class, appetite
and body image
*Good Housekeeping*
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