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Title details for Piglet by Lottie Hazell - Available

Piglet

A Novel

by Lottie Hazell
Rebekah Hinds
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"Hinds' depiction of Piglet's frantic appetite is piercing, capturing her insatiable need for the lushly described food. This is a listen like slightly burnt caramel—sharp and dark, yet still luscious."—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it all
Outside of a childhood nickname she can't shake, Piglet's rather pleased with how her life's turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, she's got lovely, loyal friends and a handsome fiancé, 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 she's always cooking.
But when Kit confesses a horrible betrayal two weeks before they're 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 can't explain. Torn between a life she's 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 women's often complicated relationship with food and a celebration of the messes life sometimes makes for us.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

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  • Release date

    February 27, 2024

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781250332325
      • File size: 218768 KB
      • Duration: 07:35:45

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 8, 2024
      Hazell debuts with the delicious narrative of a disastrous wedding. The bride is a London cookbook editor known by her childhood nickname, Piglet. Thirteen days before the ceremony, her fiancé, Kit, confesses that he’s cheated on her, and the ensuing stress leads her to relapse into binge-eating, something she’s struggled with since childhood. She’s also fallen out with her pregnant best friend Margot over the decision to move ahead with the wedding despite Kit’s unfaithfulness, and she becomes obsessed with making the wedding cake, an elaborate croquem bouche. Margot, before their falling out, warned Piglet that “counting down to events in days makes you sound like a serial killer,” and though there’s no violence, Margot’s words echo unsettlingly as Piglet withdraws emotionally from Kit and begins dodging her coworkers to arrange sessions of binge-eating. Hazell occasionally slips into stereotypes, as when she describes Piglet’s family members trying to stuff her into her wedding dress, but she also offers unflinching depictions of disordered eating, including a scene in which Piglet devours a pile of burgers in a chain restaurant and her fingers fuse together from the mess, causing her hand to look more like a hoof. When the big date finally arrives, Piglet finally resists the old-fashioned notions of the perfect bride. It’s an appealing cautionary tale.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Rebekah Hinds imbues Hazell's compelling debut with a palpable sense of dread. A London cookbook editor known as Piglet prepares for her wedding, complete with a croquembouche wedding cake she's planning to make herself. Then, just 13 days before the big day, her fianc, Kit, shares a secret that derails everything. Hinds's portrait of Piglet is a triumph, capturing her satisfaction at the sumptuous meals she creates for friends and family and her disintegrating confidence as she desperately tries to stay the course to her wedding despite Kit's awful confession. Hinds's depiction of Piglet's frantic appetite is piercing, capturing her insatiable need for the lushly described food. This is a listen like slightly burnt caramel--sharp and dark, yet still luscious. S.A.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      May 31, 2024

      London cookbook editor Piglet can't shake the nickname she has had since childhood. Even she thinks of herself as Piglet. Piglet's fianc�, Kit, comes from a snobbishly wealthy family with its own eccentricities, but he loves Piglet and the elaborate meals she cooks for their friends and family. Then, two weeks before their wedding, Kit reveals a devastating secret, and Piglet's life is turned upside down. A ravenous appetite overtakes Piglet, masking her anguish as she struggles to decide between the path she's supposed to take and the life she really deserves. Rebekah Hinds narrates Hazell's deeply unsettling debut, viscerally conveying Piglet's helplessness and confusion as she tries to fill the voids in her life with decadent feasts of meat, cheese, and cake. Flashbacks allow listeners to better understand Piglet's background and make it even more agonizing to follow her desperate path forward. As the wedding approaches, listeners will be on tenterhooks, waiting to see if she attains what she so desperately longs for. VERDICT A decadent and disturbing portrait of a woman's unraveling. Recommended for those who enjoyed Laura Williams's Supper Club and Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple.--Elyssa Everling

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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