Fifty-something Lizzie Prain is an ordinary housewife. She enjoys cooking, avoids the neighbours and runs a little business making cakes. No one has seen Lizzie's husband, Jacob, for a few days. That's because last Monday, on impulse, Lizzie caved in the back of his head with a spade. A subversive treat characterised by the black humour of Roald Dahl's adult fiction and the provocative immediacy of Herman Koch's }The Dinner{