A Healthy Appetite Katie Huttlestone 9781917792264

A delightfully dark and ravenous tale of morality vs mortality, that asks what you'd sacrifice for your survival. Perfect for fans of Monika Kim and Sayaka Murata.

Hannah is dying for a cure.

After a decade subsumed by a cancer diagnosis, Hannah is now thirty, existing in a hinterland between life and death. Her boyfriend Scott has become more of a carer than a lover, and - with no job, no plans, and no more options - she has resigned herself to no future.

But then she's given the opportunity to join phase one of a clinical trial that might just save her. Almost immediately, she feels different; that evening, her appetite returns. And it keeps growing...

Now Hannah is hungry for life.

A committed vegetarian, Hannah suddenly finds herself craving meat - but her new hunger isn't limited to food. Now she wants everything. As new and suppressed desires surface she becomes reckless, destructive, and deceitful. It's the miracle drug she's been waiting for, but at what cost?

Katie Huttlestone is a disabled author and English Literature teacher from Hertfordshire. She is a Faber Academy alumna with a degree in English Literature from the University of Reading, and a PGCE from the University of Hertfordshire. A Healthy Appetite was longlisted for both the Blue Pencil Agency Pitch Prize and the Lucy Cavendish Prize for Fiction. It is her debut novel.