From the prizewinning author of God's Own Country and A Natural comes a moving and intimate
exploration of marriage devotion and sacrifice and a woman's enduring search for freedom. A
Hunger is the story of Anita: a talented sous chef at a high-end London restaurant. At home
however her husband Patrick is suffering from dementia and declining rapidly. As she is thrown
between two conflicting worlds - the exciting bustle of her kitchen and her exhausting new role
as a carer - Anita must make a decision: about her husband's future as well as her own. Should
she free them both by acting on his last plea for mercy or should she remain faithful to the
person Patrick once used to be? A decision complicated by ambition and the guilt of her own
past - and by her intensifying friendship with another man Peter and the temptation of a new
life. A Hunger is a novel about love and sacrifice how illness and duty affect ordinary lives.
With tenderness and precision Ross Raisin explores what it means to look after somebody at the
end of a life what we owe to our loved ones and to ourselves. 'The poignancy of Ross Raisin's
characters is equalled only by the brilliance of his writing' - John Boyne on A Natural
