Test Kitchen
(Paperback)
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Paperback
Published: 9th July 2024
Hardback
Published: 10th September 2024
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Published: 9th September 2025
Publishing Details
Test Kitchen
By (Author) Neil Stewart
Little, Brown Book Group
Corsair
9th July 2024
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 152mm, Height 232mm, Spine 26mm
369g
Description
'Neil Stewart is the kind of writer who appears once in a generation, gifts fully-formed' Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting
'An amazing novel . . . Veering from humorous to horrifying, Test Kitchen shows real insight into the mildly unhinged nature of both high-end restaurants and their diners - with wit, lyricism and a killer turn of phrase' Marina O'Loughlin Welcome to a Tuesday night at London restaurant Midgard. The kitchen is buzzing. The tables are set. And the staff and guests take their place....The maitre d' caught up in a conspiracy......The precocious young foodie with an axe to grind......The nervous new sous chef......The anonymous influential food critic......The patisserie chef stalked by her ex-lover......The wayward son of a dangerous family......The enigmatic head chef with the past she won't discuss......The lone diner with the terrible wound to his face...Watching everything from her hidden vantage is Marley, the restaurant's newest waitress. She alone knows bad things are about to unfold - but she is powerless to intervene.Tonight, everyone has a story. Is it too late to change how this one endsTense and moreish, Test Kitchen is a darkly funny and often macabre story about the culture of food, of dining and eating, about feeding and nourishing, about mothers, mortality and magic.Reviews
Neil Stewart is the kind of writer who appears once in a generation, gifts fully-formed -- Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting
Test Kitchen is full of twists that will leave you winded. It is a thriller, a meticulously painted picture of the world of high-end dining, a portrait of different kinds of damage, a deeply felt story of what people begin as and what they become. It is, in short, a wild wild ride. -- Neel Mukherjee
Test Kitchen is an amazing novel that hovers somewhere between the fantastical and gritty reality. Veering from humorous to horrifying, it shows real insight into the mildly unhinged nature of both high-end restaurants and their diners - with wit, lyricism and a killer turn of phrase -- Marina O'Loughlin
Author Bio
Neil Stewart was born in Glasgow in 1978. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. His first novel The Glasgow Coma Scale (Corsair) was published in 2014. He currently freelances as a proofreader and editorial assistant for galleries and museums, and is Arts Editor of the online magazine Civilian. He lives in London.
