A Novel Cuisine

A Novel Cuisine is a comic novel set in contemporary CapeTown. Norman Frye a food critic consultant and author of adaily blog lives contentedly amidst black walls and cunninglyplaced pools of light a couch atop a fi sh tank and a pet rat Trotsky.He arrives home from a school reunion to fi nd his partner Ivyhaving sex with a young man she had picked up in a coffee shop.A tempestuous fi fty days follow for Norman a soon acquired girlfriend Gabriella Ivy and his campaigning overbearing mother.It’s a time of family feuding plans for a wake disputed journalsa cookbook and ‘dark food’. There are secrets hidden in old taperecordings death and Norman coming to terms with much morethan Ivy’s infi delity.