Published in 2022
284 pages
10 hours and 44 minutes
Chelsea G. Summers likes to write unlikeable female characters, perhaps because she is one. As a freelance journalist, Chelsea’s work focuses on sex, politics, tech, fashion and culture. She is a former academic and college professor with Ph.D. training in eighteenth-century British literature, a discipline that has proven to be shockingly useful when writing about contemporary culture. Chelsea splits her time between New York and Stockholm, Sweden. A Certain Hunger is her first novel.
What is this book about?
Eat Pray Love meets American Psycho in a seductive and sinister debut literary thriller.
‘This book is crazy. You have to read it.’ Bon Appetit
Dorothy Daniels has always had a voracious – and adventurous – appetite. From her idyllic farm-to-table childhood (homegrown tomatoes, thick slices of freshly baked bread) to the heights of her career as a food critic (white truffles washed down with Barolo straight from the bottle) Dorothy has never been shy about indulging her exquisite tastes – even when it lead to her plunging an ice pick into her lover’s neck.
There is something inside Dorothy that makes her different from everybody else. Something she’s finally ready to confess. But beware: her story just might make you wonder how your lover would taste sautéed with shallots and mushrooms and deglazed with a little red wine.
