![]() This lends the narrative a “serendipitous, ambulatory and yet progressive structure” as his wanderings are accompanied by his highbrow thoughts on food philosophy, provenance and gastronomy - or, as he describes it later, “gastro-historico-pyscho-autobiographico-antropico-philosophic lubrications”. (For the rest of the year he lives in Norfolk.) He begins by stating “this is not a conventional cookbook” and then explains it was written while on a short holiday travelling “southwards through France, which is, as the reader will learn, my spiritual (and for a portion of the year, actual) homeland”. ![]() The tale is narrated by Tarquin Winot stream-of-consciousness style in a voice that is both pompous and eccentric. John Lanchester’s debut novel, The Debt to Pleasure, is a subversive black comedy about a narcissistic food snob who has a well-disguised penchant for murder. Fiction – paperback Picador Classics 232 pages 2015. ![]()
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