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 the searing, unforgettable and original debut which is set to take readers by storm in 2024.

Very wise, and so wonderful on food and cooking it should probably come with a hunger trigger-warning. I loved it. ― Daily Mail

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

Sublime descriptions of food… a quirky story of class, appetite and body image ― Good Housekeeping

A dark, weird, satisfying tale about greed and desire. ― i News

Lottie Hazell has managed to create a style, and a character, instantly relatable and readable―while being stunningly original and fully-formed ― Foyles, Top Ten Reads for January

This book! Visceral, brilliantly dark, and so smart. An object lesson in how our relentless pursuit of a tickbox life will never make us happy. Characters that pop, writing you could eat. ― Fran Littlewood, author of Amazing Grace Adams

Intriguing, propulsive, delicious and ultimately satisfying: I devoured it in two days, and suffice to say, it’s a book you’ll want on your 2024 reading list. ― Claire Daverley, author of Talking at Night

Piglet is luscious and disturbing and propulsive, and I completely devoured it. It’s a book about hunger and secrecy and women made small by convention. And it’s a book that tears at the surface of things to reveal the vast, messy truth of a body with a beating heart. ― Catherine Newman, author of We All Want Impossible Things