Marriage ends in all kinds of ways. Lizzie Prain chose to end it with murder, boiling her husband’s blood and bones for stock. When you’re broke, isolated and searching for a way out of marriage, what else can you do?

Before hitting her husband with a shovel, Lizzie shared a quiet life and long marriage with her husband, Jacob, in Surrey Hills, before she found herself hitting him with a shovel. In search of a new life, she finds herself cooking and eating him to avoid life imprisonment. To Lizzie, the plan is foolproof: not only will she destroy all evidence, but she will also gain vitality and strength from a protein-rich diet. What she doesn’t expect is feelings of intimacy towards the misfit helping her clean the shed or his old man, threatening to expose her secret.

This book is not one to delve into when you’re enjoying Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge ice cream on a Saturday night. In fact, it’s best to avoid eating altogether as you make your way through Natalie Young’s Season to Taste. It is a story about new friends, honesty and one lonely woman’s flair for cooking – though certainly not the type to be sitting on the shelf next to Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals.

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