Piglet by Lottie Hazell

 Despite the rave reviews this book is getting, I did not like this book. Piglet (aka Pippa) is a cookbook author engaged to Kit. Piglet (and the fact that everyone called her that or Pig all the way through the book is really annoying) is from a lower middle class family while Kit's family is very wealthy. We never really find out much about how they ended up together. Anyway, life seems blissful, then Kit decides (2 weeks before the wedding) to confess to Piglet that he did something bad, though we NEVER find out what it was. She loses it. She starts eating and can't stop. She's distracted at work and rude to everyone. But she is determined that the wedding must go on (not sure why). Her best friend finally tells her she deserves better and it would be OK to call off the wedding, but she goes through with it then has a major meltdown. The ending is very abrupt and resolves nothing. I did laugh when one of the servers at the wedding reception bet one of the other servers that the marriage would last about a quarter of an hour, judging by the look on the bride's face.

I did not like Piglet. She was rude to her family (though truthfully, her father was not very nice to her either and kept calling her Pig and saying she was greedy, so I guess it's understandable). We never find out what Kit's big secret was. We never really get to know Kit all in fact. (I personally think he didn't want to marry her but didn't want to be the bad guy who called off the wedding, so he was trying to get her to do it.) I also didn't like Kit's overbearing parents. In fact, the only really sympathetic characters in the whole book were Pippa's sister Franny and Franny's boyfriend, Darren, and the best friend, Margot.

The cooking descriptions are well written but that's about the best I can say.