Writer's Conflict with Food

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How writing about female cannibals changed my relationship with food

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In 2020 , I started working on a novel about mother and daughter cannibals, who lure lost souls to their rural forest homestead and bake them into pies and stews.

It wasn’t a conscious choice to write about women with a carnal desire to feast.

But slowly, deep into drafting which is a very physical act for me, I realised that my relationship with food and consumption was changing.

Exposure to these women, who binged without guilt or inhibition, forced me to confront my fraught relationship.

Food felt like a means of bargaining taking back control and autonomy when I felt powerless.

Lucy Rose's childhood body was fading and there was nothing I could do to preserve it.

When a woman’s body stops looking young, everything changes.

Her social currency falls to nil. People stop noticing or listening to her.

Her relationship with her body was broken and she used food as a currency.

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