{"product_id":"9781472158253","title":"Test Kitchen","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Stewart, Neil \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 July 2024 by Little, Brown Book Group (Corsair) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e163 x 241 x 28 | 530g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Test Kitchen is phenomenal - a mad, magical, ten-course feast of a novel, gorgeously written, totally original, packed with ideas and invention. Incredibly ambitious too - so many characters, so many stories, all of it choreographed so expertly. I have no idea how Neil Stewart did it, even after reading it twice. It deserves to be a massive success. Three Michelin stars' Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting'An amazing novel . . . Veering from humorous to horrifying, Test Kitchen shows real insight into the mildly unhinged nature of both high-end restaurants and their diners - with wit, lyricism and a killer turn of phrase' Marina O'Loughlin'A gorgeous tasting menu of a novel, a glittering mystery as sharp as a paring knife and as artfully constructed as its fictional restaurant' Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining GirlsWelcome to a Tuesday night at London restaurant Midgard. The kitchen is buzzing. The tables are set. And the staff and guests take their place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...The maître d' caught up in a conspiracy...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...The precocious young foodie with an axe to grind...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...The nervous new sous chef...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...The anonymous influential food critic...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...The patisserie chef stalked by her ex-lover...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...The wayward son of a dangerous family...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...The enigmatic head chef with the past she won't discuss...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...The lone diner with the terrible wound to his face...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatching everything from her hidden vantage is Marley, the restaurant's newest waitress. She alone knows bad things are about to unfold - but she is powerless to intervene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTonight, everyone has a story. Is it too late to change how this one ends?Tense and moreish, Test Kitchen is a darkly funny and often macabre story about the culture of food, of dining and eating, about feeding and nourishing, about mothers, mortality and magic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45668050338051,"sku":"9781472158253","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781472158253_b1ef9369-425f-4b49-9449-67491a2cb8ce.jpg?v=1731329033","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9781472158253","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}