Eat Your Heart Out
Victoria Brownlee | Paperback | February 2025
Rival food writers. An intense challenge on the French Riviera. Knives out.
Chloe Bridgers, Australian food blogger in Paris, has landed an interview to write the tell-all memoir of controversial celebrity chef Carla Duris. The only catch? To nab the role, she has to compete against a group of cut-throat, world-class food writers during a weekend-long job interview at the Duris family villa on the glistening Côte d'Azur.
Already feeling like a fish out of water, Chloe starts to worry that old-school French journalist Henri de la Fontaine has been sabotaging her from the get-go. But is winning the only thing he has in mind?
As the weekend unfolds, interviewees are seemingly sent packing at random and tensions among those remaining boil over. Does Chloe have what it takes to land the job, or will she become the next casualty in the fight to write for Madame Duris?
Victoria Brownlee is an international food writer and editor, currently based in Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. She started writing about food over a decade ago, first as a blogger and then as the food and drink editor at Time Out Shanghai. She continues to write freelance articles on food trends across Europe.
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