Her second novel, Land of Milk and Honey, now out in paperback, follows a private chef who gets a job in a billionaire's Alpine hideaway during a global famine caused by smog.
I think the novel explores how we define and pursue pleasure in a world crumbling around us. To write about food was fun on a sheer visceral level, which I'd been missing a bit writing my first novel.
Simple escapism during the pandemic, partly. Certainly, I was aware of the drift towards fascism in Europe and elsewhere, but what was more important to me was that the setting is actually at the border of three countries.
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