Supper Club

Supper Club

by Lara Williams (Author)

Synopsis

Devastatingly perceptive, savagely funny and wildly original - the essential coming-of-age story for our times. With the deadpan wit of Fleabag and ruthless insight of Cat Person, Lara Williams tells a tale of rage and joy, hunger and friendship, bodies and the space they take up in the world.

Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry - until the day she invents Supper Club.

Supper Club is a secret society for hungry women. Women who are sick of bad men and bad sex, of hinted expectations to talk less, take less, be less. So they gather after dark and feast until they are sick. They drink and dance and roar. And, month by month, their bodies expand.

At the centre of the Supper Club stands Roberta - cynical yet anxious, precocious and lost. She is seeking the answer to a simple question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?

This is a story about the hunger that never goes away. And it is a story about the people who make us what we are - who lead us astray and ultimately save us. You look hungry. Join the club.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: 1
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 04 Jul 2019

ISBN 10: 024135031X
ISBN 13: 9780241350317

Author Bio
Lara Williams is a writer based in Manchester. Her debut short story collection Treats was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Edinburgh First Book Award, the Saboteur Awards and longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. It is published in the US as A Selfie as Big as the Ritz. Lara Williams has contributed to the Guardian, New Scientist, Times Literary Supplement, Debrief, Vice, Grazia, SomeSuch Stories, and many more.