Chop Chop

Brace yourself for this lively, amusing and alarmingly informative novel ... the horribly plausible cast and foul-mouthed mania of the kitchen - described by a former chef who knows what he's writing about - give this book its energy and best laughs

Daily Mail

A greasy, hilarious tale of loyalty, revenge and dark appetites. A gripping look behind the kitchen wall

Shortlist

Perfectly baked [with] a rich, gooey pool of dark comedy hiding beneath the surface. Despite straying into the realm of sabotage, blackmail and secret dinner parties serving stomach-churning illegal fare, Wroe's novel makes for fresh, appetising reading

Independent

Confirms all your worst fears about professional kitchens in a debut novel that is dark, pungent, twisted, surprising and above all genuinely funny. If you enjoy eating out, don't read this book

William Sutcliffe, author of Are You Experienced?

Raucous and inventive, peopled with technicolour characters and savagely funny, Chop Chop announces Simon Wroe as both an heir to Martin Amis and an oven-fresh talent unto himself

A D Miller, author of Snowdrops

A complete page-turner. Reminiscent of Kitchen Confidential but with an entirely fresh voice that is a pleasure to read

Thomasina Miers, founder of Wahaca

A brutally funny look at the world of professional cooking. Sometimes the truth is so strange it needs to be sautéed in a pan of fiction

Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

Furiously funny, fast, surreal. The heat and the profanity feel painfully real; the prose, masterfully stylized, definitely the stuff of fiction

Anya von Bremzen, author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking

Arch comedy ... Dave Eggers channels Anthony Bourdain

Kirkus

Depicts the literal underworld of a restaurant kitchen with wit, vigor, and gleeful, necessary profanity

New York Times Book Review