Supper Club
$23.64
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2020
Summary
A savagely funny and perceptive coming-of-age debut novel - a battle cry for the #metoo generation
Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry - until the day she invents Supper Club.
Supper Club is a secret society for hungry women. Women who are sick of bad men and bad sex, of hinted expectations to be thinner, smile more, talk less. So they gather at night to feast and drink and dance, seeking the answer to a simple question- if you feed a starving woman, w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241984109 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241984106 |
| Author: | Lara Williams |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 17mm |
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A radical retake on the notion that women must starve themselves to meet society’s demands… Written with total glee and rollocking sense of unlimited possibility, Lara Williams is one to watch
A radical retake on the notion that women must starve themselves to meet society’s demands… Written with total glee and rollocking sense of unlimited possibility, Lara Williams is one to watch * Stylist *Sophisticated, attentive, visceral, sensual…. Following in the footsteps of Elena Ferrante and Sally Rooney, Williams explores the shifting dynamics of female friendships * Times Literary Supplement *Exquisite. Wise and generous, subtle and superbly attentive… The food in this book eats you, imparting a depth of flavour that resurfaces stylishly when you least expect it * The New York Times *Cool and knowing, jam-packed with cultural references, not to mention mouthwatering recipes… Kicks back against the degradations and appetite-shaming strictures of a notionally feminist age * Metro *Supper Club is SO GREAT. Utterly perfect on loneliness, isolation, friendship, love, appetite, body image. It’s about millennial women but I’m reading and nodding: ‘Whole Mood’Powerful and original, insightful and moving… The voice feels akin to Sally Rooney’s: colloquial, precise, at once uneasy about its place in the world and determined to stand up for itself… Williams suggests convincingly that cooking is as rigorous and complex as any art form * Guardian *Like Fight Club but with food… About rebellion and power and all the desires women have suppressed for so, so long * Bustle *Supper Club will speak to parts of you that you didn’t know were yearning. A thought-provoking read that will make you hungry for more * Refinery29 *A smart, zeitgeisty, genuinely affecting coming-of-age-tale… Lara Williams is very much a talent in her own right * Daily Mail *For reading while eating in the bath and licking your lips… There’s no other book to read this month * Lit Hub *
About The Author
Lara Williams
Lara Williams is the author of Treats, Supper Club and The Odyssey. Her fiction has won the Guardian ‘Not the Booker’ Prize and been nominated for the BBC National Short Story Award, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Edinburgh First Book Award, the Saboteur Awards and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Lara Williams lives in Manchester and is a contributor to the Guardian, Independent, Times Literary Supplement, Vice, Dazed and others.
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