About the Author

Lottie Hazell is a writer, contemporary literature scholar, and board game designer living in Warwickshire. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Loughborough University and her research considers food writing in twenty-first century fiction. Piglet is her first novel.

Reviews

Very wise, and so wonderful on food and cooking it should probably come with a hunger trigger-warning. I loved it.
*Daily Mail*

A best debut novel of 2024
*Stylist*

A cunning critique of the expectations that society continues to heap on young women.
*Financial Times*

A deliciously dark tour de force
*Red*

Some novels just get food right ... Hazell understands just how connected culinary and literary pleasures are ... [There is] much to devour in Piglet: set scenes of stomach-churning awkwardness, razor-sharp analysis of class, even an unforgettable description of food on the verge of rot.
*Sunday Times*

Dark, witty and very well-written (the descriptions of food are reminiscent of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn), Piglet is a satire that explores everything from class to body image
*Independent*

Brilliant on appetite, ambition, secrecy and shame. Engrossing.
*Daily Mail, '60 of the best holiday reads for adults and children'*

An insightful, stomach-churning debut novel about the corrosive power of secrets.
*Mail on Sunday*

If I owned a bookstore, I’d hand-sell Piglet to everyone ... Hazell’s prose is as tart and icy as lemon sorbet; her sentences are whipcord taut, drum tight ... the “will she or won’t she” isn’t just about the man and the wedding. It’s about whether Piglet ends up embracing a big life, full of richness and variety and good things to eat, or if she lets herself be crammed into that too-small dress.
*Jennifer Weiner, The New York Times Book Review*

Sublime descriptions of food... a quirky story of class, appetite and body image
*Good Housekeeping*