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Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell
Narrated by: Rebekah Hinds
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Brought to you by Penguin.

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?

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‘A high-wire exploration of control, pleasure and desire’ Chloë Ashby
‘A book that tears at the surface of things to reveal the vast, messy truth of a body with a beating heart’ Catherine Newman
‘It takes audacity, all kinds of courage to produce a novel as ferocious as Piglet. It made me so hungry’ Lamorna Ash


©2024 Lottie Hazell (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Critic reviews

Very wise, and so wonderful on food and cooking it should probably come with a hunger trigger-warning. I loved it.
A best debut novel of 2024
A cunning critique of the expectations that society continues to heap on young women.
A deliciously dark tour de force
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.
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
Brilliant on appetite, ambition, secrecy and shame. Engrossing.
An insightful, stomach-churning debut novel about the corrosive power of secrets.
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.
Sublime descriptions of food... a quirky story of class, appetite and body image
All stars
Most relevant
descriptive and engrossing, yet beautiful depiction of a milestone event that showcases a woman's inability to shake or face her destructive eating disorder.

consuming is the word...

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What can I say about Piglet. We follow her life on the lead up to her wedding to Kit when he makes a confession that shatters her world. We don’t know what the secret is but we follow Piglet in the days before her wedding as she struggles with her feelings despite vowing to go ahead with the wedding.

I started this as an ebook but then transferred to audiobook. This is my first audiobook and by the end I was able to truly listen and not let my mind wander. If you’ve never listened to an audiobook it can be done with a little perseverance. I really liked the narrators voice and thought it suited the book and Piglet well and will definitely listen to over books she narrates. The narrator really drew me in an added to the emotions the book brings.

Piglet loves food, hence her name. Food is her life. The food descriptions are sublime and at times made my mouth water. This took a few goes to get to the end as I had a love/ hate relationship with her. At the beginning she came across snobby and looked down on her family. She really is her own worst enemy, she has struggled her whole life with family, food and her emotions but all in all, all I wanted was a happy ever after for her however that may look. This is a rocky 4 stars but as we never actually found out the secret I wanted to drop it to 3 but then changed my mind again as I did enjoy it and found myself listening at every opportunity!Perhaps if we would have had a full ending we could have understood the choices Piglet made.

Read/ Listen for the food descriptions alone

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Although full of suggestions displaying a life of a woman unfulfilled and disappointed, the overall story was quite boring sadly. Predictable…as other readers have said, what was the ‘story’ she was hanging her hat on? Not as good as the intro makes it seem.

Unfortunately disappointing

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The characters in this book were so interesting and brought to life by the brilliant narration. I enjoyed the premise and the food theme which ran throughout the story. The language used when describing food was incredible and had me looking up certain recipes/menus. Really enjoyed Lottie Hazel’s style of writing and will be looking out for her next novel.

Piglet - a great debut

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At first glance, an easy read about modern relationships. But with gripping descriptions and nuanced characterisation, I really enjoyed this book.

Stunningly written

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