Unsettling, sensual, subversive, Woman, Eating turns the vampire trope on its head with its startlingly original female protagonist, caught between two worlds.

While her situation is unique her problems are those of any young woman trying to figure out her path in life. Her self-hatred and hunger occupy her every thought…until she finds something (or something) to eat. She can’t seem to bring herself to produce any more art and at the gallery is either mistreated or ignored.Though aimless to start, Lydia's achingly vulnerable first-person narration gains momentum as she achieves self-acceptance—and, ultimately, self-empowerment. To find out which cheeses you should not eat when you're pregnant on our page about foods to avoid in pregnancy.

This would have made a dynamic novella, as a novel, even a relatively short one, it leaves something to be desired. So I wasn't approaching this book from the perspective of knowing a lot about vampires, and knowing a lot about what other people had designed for them. But she's also a vampire, slowly descending into hunger as she struggles to find animal blood to feed from. She reflects on her nature, if she has any of her father’s humanity or whether her mother is right and they are monsters.

British Lion hen eggs and hen eggs produced under the Laid in Britain scheme are less likely to have salmonella in them. I did question whether pig blood would be truly so hard to get ahold of and why Lydia didn't try to get ahold of some other source of food sooner. Find out more about food labelling, including how the "green, amber, red" code can help you make healthier choices quickly. In an interview, Anne Rice described ‘the vampire’ as being ‘outside of life’, thus ‘the greatest metaphor for the outsider in all of us’. The way vampirism operates in this world is not clear-cut and I think that really suited this type of story.