As Meat Loves Salt, anyone?

[grendel]

Has anyone else read As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann? I've just finished it and am completely blown away and can't get it out of my head. It's possibly the most powerful study of a relationship that I've ever read, and now that I've stopped crying I need someone else to share the "Wow" factor with.

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I read it a few years back and it's stayed with me ever since. Awesome!

Yes, another fan here too. Novels set in an historical setting can often be a bit clunky and heavy on period detail, but the characters and setting seem entirely believable.

Oh, some responses! I'd given up hope!
Indrid, I agree, the intense detail of the period setting makes the novel really come alive and makes the experiences of the protagonists just much more real.

Did either of you want to go straight back to the beginning to see if you could pick up more clues to what was going on in Jacob's head a second time around? I nearly did but decided I was too traumatised and should wait a few months. The whole novel and especially the ending really disturbed me and affected my sleep for days afterwards, and it kept popping into my head unbidden at random moments during the day. I'm slightly less obsessed by it now, 6 days later.... Did you feel the same or am I just weird?

I liked it very much, and it is very powerful and fascinating. McCann's more recent book, The Wilding, is fairly clunky though in comparison.

Ooh, I have this on my To Be Read shelf...looks like I'll be reading it sooner rather than later then

grendel - your post has made me go and look out my copy again as I think it may be time for a re-read .

I read it when it came out in paperback and was amazed to see that that was about 10 years ago!

It was such a powerful book and she describes the intensity of Jacob's passions so vividly that it has stayed with me ever since.

Bearing in mind that these days most books I read I seem to forget the plots almost instantly, yet I can remember almost everything about AMLS.

Someone picked it on A Good Read a few years ago, and they all loved it too.

Yes, yes! "Vivid" describes it exactly.

Go on, read it again and then come back and tell me what you think the significance of his strange attack of toothache was. I can't figure it out at all but the author must have put it in the book for a reason.

I'd love a psychologist's opinion on Jacob