Chop Chop

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Brace yourself for this lively, amusing and alarmingly informative novel A greasy, hilarious tale of loyalty, revenge and dark appetites Confirms all your worst fears about professional kitchens in a debut novel that is dark, pungent, twisted, surprising and above all genuinely funny. If you enjoy eating out, don't read this book Raucous and inventive, peopled with technicolour characters and savagely funny, Chop Chop announces Simon Wroe as both an heir to Martin Amis and an oven-fresh talent unto himself A complete page-turner. Reminiscent of Kitchen Confidential but with an entirely fresh voice that is a pleasure to read Perfectly baked [with] a rich, gooey pool of dark comedy hiding beneath the surface. Despite straying into the realm of sabotage, blackmail and secret dinner parties serving stomach-churning illegal fare, Wroe's novel makes for fresh, appetising reading A brutally funny look at the world of professional cooking. Sometimes the truth is so strange it needs to be sautéed in a pan of fiction Furiously funny, fast, surreal. The heat and the profanity feel painfully real; the prose, masterfully stylized, definitely the stuff of fiction Arch comedy ... Dave Eggers channels Anthony Bourdain Depicts the literal underworld of a restaurant kitchen with wit, vigor, and gleeful, necessary profanity Expand reviews