PIGLET, also known as Pinky to her family, is a cookbook editor in London. She has a boyfriend who's recently proposed and they've bought a house together. We meet Piglet and Kit on the night of their housewarming party with a few close friends.
This party gives us a fair look into their personal dynamics, their friends and how they're with each other.
With a little more than 90 days to their wedding, all talk is focussed on it and their stag dos. The story is told by Piglet in a countdown to their wedding style and gives us a glimpse of wedding prep, and her relationship with her parents and in-laws. We meet all these people and understand the dynamics she shares with them.
Just when the build-up to the wedding gets close and all preparations are in full swing, two weeks before the big day, Kit confesses to Piglet. The suspense keeps building until the wedding day. We are never explicitly told what the confession is except that Kit had indulged in getting pleasure for himself.
For the most part, the story is akin to a thriller, a train wreck where we hold our breaths waiting for the crash. All through the 99 odd days Piglet goes through the motions, gets married and finally explodes at the reception at their new home. It is a curious mix of a train wreck, a runaway bride, and a ticking time bomb.
I enjoyed the tension present in the narration as they build up to the big day. Piglet is a put-together professional, accomplished chef, and a well-to-do citizen, professional and girlfriend. However, there's a storm brewing right below the surface and the little ways anyone observing should be able to anticipate it.
However, when she finally explodes it's rather anti-climatic and everyone around her is resigned to it. So we meet a woman with a new home, a fiancee, an upcoming wedding, a promotion within grabs and how it all goes from a promising future to something quite the opposite.
We see how a carefully constructed house of cards falls and things are always an open conversation away from falling apart. I enjoyed the tension created in the story and the quick pace. It's fast, relatable and you keep turning the pages to know what happens and what exactly is the fiance's confession about.
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it all
Outside of a childhood nickname she can’t shake, Piglet’s rather pleased with how her life’s turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, she’s got lovely, loyal friends and a handsome fiancé, Kit, whose rarefied family she actually, most of the time, likes, despite their upper-class eccentricities. One of the many, many things Kit loves about Piglet is the delicious, unfathomably elaborate meals she’s always cooking.
But when Kit confesses a horrible betrayal two weeks before they’re set to be married, Piglet finds herself suddenly…hungry. The couple decides to move forward with the wedding as planned, but as it nears and Piglet balances family expectations, pressure at work, and her quest to make the perfect cake, she finds herself increasingly unsettled, behaving in ways even she can’t explain. Torn between a life she’s always wanted and the ravenousness that comes with not getting what she knows she deserves, Piglet is, by the day of her wedding, undone, but also ready to look beyond the lies we sometimes tell ourselves to get by.
A stylish, uncommonly clever novel about the things we want and the things we think we want, Piglet is both an examination of women’s often complicated relationship with food and a celebration of the messes life sometimes makes for us.
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