Hungry

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I try to say my name, Thalia Apple, but the words burble up from my throat and pop likebubbles in my mouth with a taste that’s faint and far away. Mom asks over the yapping of her personal cyber assistant Gretchen, who runs through today's junk mail on the main screen.

When she's not writing comedy Grace is to be found 'faffing about on the internet' or 'faffing about in the garden or kitchen' or 'just 'faffing about generally.A. Swain is a dystopian novel where there is no longer food because man has destroyed the world's resources.

I thought the first part of this book was interesting and did some really fantastic world building, but then it unravels. It's also everyone's story - from treats with your nan, to cheese and pineapple hedgehogs, to the exquisite joy of cheaply-made apple crumble with custard. Instead, I figured out how to crack the operating system of my Gizmo and reconfigured it to hop from stealth server to stealth server all over the world.

K. I hated it so much during the first 200 pages and I was actually thinking about DNF'ing, but due to guilt, I just couldn't. George’s illness is glimpsed throughout the book, from the early days when it’s still a family joke (“He’s not got dementia,” her mother assures her, “he’s just a dickhead”) to the final Christmas, when food provides a way to bring the family together in the most painful circumstances.