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'Very funny, very stylish and very moving' ADAM THIRLWELL 'An irresistible novel - I loved it' CLAIRE POWELL 'Deliciously unsettling and thoroughly enjoyable' AYŞEGÜL SAVAS An evening of perfect preparation. A night of uninvited chaos. For the hostess, food has always been about growing up. From the pancakes your grandmother made you, dolloped with jam, to the salty glug of your first oyster. Now, poised at the brink of midlife, the hostess prepares for a dinner party in her new apartment. With a hunger for the finer things in life, she folds linen napkins into neat triangles, arranges wildflowers for the table and puts on a jazz playlist the projects effortless cool. But her composure begins to falter when her guests arrive drunk and late, downing bottles of her perfectly cooled wine and trailing water over the floor. Here comes the chain-smoking professor who never says the right thing, the husband glued to his smartphone, the wife who makes a secret pass at your boyfriend. As small talk and social preening give way to sexual tension and lost inhibitions, the hostess struggles to maintain control over an evening far beyond her wildest imaginings.

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""Every fear you’ve ever had about hosting a dinner party crops up in this half dream, half choose-your-own-adventure"" —GQ, The best books of 2025

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Teresa Präauer is a prize-winning Austrian author, essayist and playwright. She is a literary columnist for German newspapers and magazines, and lectures at universities internationally. Cooking in the Wrong Century is the first of her novels to be translated into English and received the highly prestigious Bremer Literaturpreis.

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