Woman, Eating: 'Absolutely brilliant - Kohda takes the vampire trope and makes it her own' Ruth Ozeki

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What's interesting about the book is your central character, Lydia,’ said Mark. ‘Yes, she's a vampire, but she's a young woman. She's struggling to find her place in the world. There's not really that much difference between Lydia and other twentysomething young men and women.’

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Eating healthily often means changing the amounts of different foods you eat, so that your diet is varied, rather than cutting out all your favourites. You can use the Eatwell Guide to get the balance of your diet right. It shows you how much of what you eat should come from each food group to achieve a healthy, balanced diet. So, in a way it’s a coming-of-age story too. An aspect that easily overshadows the vampire thing. Lamentably so, because reading about a character with a very unusual set of personal challenges is considerably more interesting than reading about a Gen Z artist trying to make her way through life. The latter is practically New Adult or at least very hipstery and the entire production is certainly very hip, but it stretches itself thin with insubstantiality, much like Lydia’s attempts at abetting her appetites with powdered blood. well cooked eggs (white and yolk) from any hen eggs that are not British Lion eggs or produced under the Laid in Britain schemeMove over, Twilight: there’s a new vampire in town. Lydia – daughter, art student, and as close to millennial as the ageless can be – is searching for food; yet brought up to spare humans and live off pig’s blood, her relationship to sustenance is anything but easy. Newly arrived in London as a gallery intern, broke and all out of swine, a gnawing, bewildering hunger underpins her new start. Food is everywhere and, maddeningly, nowhere. A darkly beautiful dual-timeline novel with a captivating mystery, for fans of Diane Setterfield, Kate Morton, Kate Mosse and Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Despite her immortality, Lydia struggles with some pretty standard human issues. Loneliness, hunger, complex family dynamic. She ends up coming across like one of the most human protagonists I’ve read, and it’s endearing. She’s shy and awkward and sad and has to wear an insane amount of SPF. She has what seems to me like a codependent mother, she doesn’t really have any money but still has plans for a future library, she watches Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and like everyone finds Riley annoying) and she doesn’t really understand how to interact with people she is interested in or wants to be friends with. At one point she says “lol” to a guy in person and I basically died)