GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023From the Booker Prizenominated author of The Water Cure comes a chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved mystery...A recommended read for 2023 in The Times, Guardian, Irish Times, Scotsman, iD, Good Housekeeping, Big Issue and Our CultureA shimmering feverdream of a novel TelegraphA dreamy sapphic romp The TimesIf you eat the bread, youll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread.Elodie is the bakers wife. A plain, unremarkable woman, ignored by her husband and underestimated by her neighbours, she burns with the secret desire to be extraordinary. One day a charismatic new couple appear in town the ambassador and his sharptoothed wife, Violet and Elodie quickly falls under their spell. All summer long she stalks them through the shining streets inviting herself into their home, eavesdropping on their coded conversations, longing to be part of their world.Meanwhile, beneath the tranquil surface of daily life, strange things are happening. Six horses are found dead in a sundrenched field, laid out neatly on the ground like an offering. Widows see their lost husbands walking up the moonlit river, coming back to claim them. A teenage boy throws himself into the bonfire at the midsummer feast. A dark intoxication is spreading through the town, and when Elodie finally understands her role in it, it will be too late to stop.Audacious and mesmerising, Cursed Bread is a...

Binding: Hardback;192 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FF; Weight: 432 g; Dimensions: 143 x 223 x 23

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