Piglet: ‘If I owned a bookstore, I’d hand-sell Piglet to everyone’ New York Times Book Review
Jan 2024 · Random House
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Discover a deliciously dark and piercing story of food and secrets, a Stylist Best Debut Novel.
‘A sharp, dark, must-read story about appetite, ambition, secrecy and shame’ Daily Mail
‘If I owned a bookstore, I’d hand-sell Piglet to everyone’ New York Times Book Review
‘A dark, weird, satisfying tale about greed and desire’ i News
Her life is so full, so why is she hungry?
For Piglet – an unshakable childhood nickname – getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss – effortless hosts, planning a covetable wedding...
But if a life looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Thirteen days before they are due to be married, Kit reveals an awful truth, cracking the façade Piglet has created. It has the power to strip her of the life she has so carefully built, so smugly shared.
To do something about it would be to self-destruct.
But what will it cost her to do nothing?
As the hours count down to their wedding, Piglet is torn between a growing appetite and the desire to follow the recipe, follow the rules. Surely, with her husband, she could be herself again. Wouldn’t it be a waste for everything to curdle now?
Piglet is a searing, unforgettable and original debut which is taking readers by storm.
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‘Compulsively readable... Delicious, in every sense of the word.’ Elle US
‘An insightful, stomach-churning debut novel about the corrosive power of secrets’ Mail on Sunday
‘A cunning critique of the expectations that society continues to heap on young women.’ Financial Times
‘A debut that needs to be on your radar... A rich, vibrant, visceral book, that is brimming with acerbic wit and mouth-watering food, this is dark, witty and explores societal pressure and body image in an unforgettable way’ - Glamour
‘Delicious, dark and thought-provoking’ Hello!
‘Satirical and funny... Hazell has much to say about our food-obsessed snobbery and she plates up a deliciously-written narrative, generously peppered with lethal ground glass’ Irish Independent
‘A food-filled debut of class and ambition’ Guardian
‘A sharp, dark, must-read story about appetite, ambition, secrecy and shame’ Daily Mail
‘If I owned a bookstore, I’d hand-sell Piglet to everyone’ New York Times Book Review
‘A dark, weird, satisfying tale about greed and desire’ i News
Her life is so full, so why is she hungry?
For Piglet – an unshakable childhood nickname – getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss – effortless hosts, planning a covetable wedding...
But if a life looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Thirteen days before they are due to be married, Kit reveals an awful truth, cracking the façade Piglet has created. It has the power to strip her of the life she has so carefully built, so smugly shared.
To do something about it would be to self-destruct.
But what will it cost her to do nothing?
As the hours count down to their wedding, Piglet is torn between a growing appetite and the desire to follow the recipe, follow the rules. Surely, with her husband, she could be herself again. Wouldn’t it be a waste for everything to curdle now?
Piglet is a searing, unforgettable and original debut which is taking readers by storm.
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‘Compulsively readable... Delicious, in every sense of the word.’ Elle US
‘An insightful, stomach-churning debut novel about the corrosive power of secrets’ Mail on Sunday
‘A cunning critique of the expectations that society continues to heap on young women.’ Financial Times
‘A debut that needs to be on your radar... A rich, vibrant, visceral book, that is brimming with acerbic wit and mouth-watering food, this is dark, witty and explores societal pressure and body image in an unforgettable way’ - Glamour
‘Delicious, dark and thought-provoking’ Hello!
‘Satirical and funny... Hazell has much to say about our food-obsessed snobbery and she plates up a deliciously-written narrative, generously peppered with lethal ground glass’ Irish Independent
‘A food-filled debut of class and ambition’ Guardian
Ratings and reviews
2.6
7 reviews
Caitlin Lloyd
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February 1, 2024
I really don't want anyone else to be as disappointed as I was. You wait 220 pages for no reveal. The entire plot leads up to a wedding where you're expecting to hear what the constantly referred to betrayal is.. only for nothing. A total anticlimax.
Nilesh Pandya
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August 28, 2024
I'm not really sure what this book was trying to say. Was it about passion for cookery? Eating disorders? Troubled relationships? If it wasn't for the book club I'm in, I'd probably have given up. The only positive I can add is that the author created excellently vivid descriptions of what was being made in the kitchen!
Catherine Foster
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March 12, 2025
Is this a book or a Waitrose advert? Even if it is, not a great one at that. Horrible pretentious characters and caricatures of poor people. Just awful, I didn't bother finishing it.
About the author
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.
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