# A Hunger

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- Book: [A Hunger](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-raisin/a-hunger) ([A Hunger.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-raisin/a-hunger.md))
- Authors: [Ross Raisin](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-raisin)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-277-9
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2023-08-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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. 'One of our best novelists' Daily Mail 'A superb achievement' Guardian 'Moving... and beautiful' Irish Times Anita is 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, Anita must make a decision: should she free them both by acting on his last plea for mercy, or should she remain faithful to the person Patrick used to be? It's 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.