Press Reviews

• Tom Tivnan, <i>The Bookseller</i>

  'Season to Taste is written in a laconic, pared-down style that immediately brings to mind Camus' L'Etranger. If that seems a somewhat grand comparison, it is not, for Young's book is one of those rare beasts - a literary novel of ideas written in simple language that could be both a university set text and a supermarket bestseller'

• The Sunday Times

  Set to be one of the most talked about - and most gruesome - books of 2014

• The List

  Young delivers an authentic portrait of a neglected marriage, and her light and compelling prose carries this macabre tale along

• Deborah Levy, author of <i>Swimming Home </i>

  An enjoyable feast of anger - witty and poised

• Stefan Merill Block, author of <i>The Story of Forgetting</i>

  Season to Taste is a modern-day fable about the end of love and moving on. Natalie Young has given us a shockingly, thrillingly new vantage on a timeless story of marriage's demise

• The Times

  A stomach-turning and terrific novel...a brilliant and literal dissection of a marriage

• Harper's Bazaar

  2014's most talked-about novel

• Daily Mail

  One of the most talked-about books of the year...filled with black humour

• Irish Independent

  Daring, groundbreaking and original

• Image

  'Brilliantly disturbing... echoes of Roald Dahl's dark adult fiction... fascinating in the most gruesome way. Delicious!'

• Observer

  Engrossingly depicts not only bodily appetite but the deepest emotional hunger pangs of being human...compulsively readable

• The Times

  Stomach-churning and terrific

• Evening Standard

  Move over Fifty Shades, there's a brand new genre whipping the publishing world into a murderous frenzy

• Sunday Express

  Young has created one of the most memorable literary anti-heroines... A beautifully nuanced and gentle portrayal of a quietly desperate woman

• New York Times

  If prizes were given out for this year's most unreliable narrator, Lizzie Prain would be the one to beat

• Daily Express

  This darkly funny book will leave you craving more as Young charts the extraordinary disposal process with unerring and at times uncomfortable detail and triumphs by blending social satire with biting wit

• Heat

  A wholly unique and brilliantly witty dark comedy

• Woman and Home

  I couldn't resist...Tasty!

• Stylist

  Dark and twisted, but beautifully written with a sprinkling of humour

• Closer

  Not for the faint-hearted, this is a brilliant dark tale of an unassuming woman trying to cook her way out of her murderous predicament

• Grazia

  Is this the female American psycho? Quite possibly

• Irish Independent

  Young is relentless in poking our food-obsessed culture right in the eye. This book, however, is so much more than a slicing satire. It is a thriller in the truest sense. I swallowed it whole, eager and enthralled. The narrative is crisp and snappy, the dialogue sparse, the pace never skips a beat. Lizzie Prain's isolation is palpable, her despair is as hot and urgent as her blind panic. It is a rare gem, this novel, appealing to the popular fiction market and equally providing a gluttonous feast for the literati

• Daily Mail

  Young writes in a wonderfully detached, dry-as-a-bone (!) style. A thunderclap, definitely