What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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The Debt to Pleasure
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SOLVED. Title sounds like a recipe book, but it's fiction. Unreliable narrator is a snobby foodie and a creepy psycho killer. [s]
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Liadhan
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Mar 12, 2019 09:42AM
The cover and title pic of this short/medium length paperback suggested it was about food, or was a recipe book. But it's fiction. The narrator is an avid foodie and food has featured prominently in his life. He is pretentious - calling recipes "receipts" with a smug little explanation of the etymology of the word - and recalls his childhood nanny as "a natural mouth breather". We realise that he is an unreliable narrator who killed his nanny, at least, when he recalls the momentary glimpse of his mittened hand in the small of her back as the train approached. Creeeeepy. I must have read it in the nineties or noughties.
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The Debt to Pleasure by John Lancaster, perhaps? That book was also about a pretentious foodie that turned out to be a highly unreliable narrator and psycho.
Yes, that's it. Gosh, that was quick! I was wrong about the title, but the structure is food-ish; instead of chapters it's laid out in 'menus'. I think that my copy had a cover picture following that theme too... Thanks Michelle.
So am I supposed to move this post into Solved, or something?
Hooray, another mystery solved!
