A novella about a woman's gradual reclusion--haunting, enigmatic, heart-stopping; it would keep you up and about guessing what is coming next, because there's this sense of foreboding, a dark atmosphere manipulated in Gothic fiction, one Susan Hill is best known for, that is achieved in Hunger. Ingredients: a cottage in the midst of woods, for a setting; a couple, for characters; an eerily silent group of children, for a chiller. Now, I'm a bit uncertain why this was called Hunger. Does it pertain to the children's empty stomachs? Or is it more allegorical? Say, the woman's longing for peace that she surprisingly found in the woods. Either which is fine. I'll be absolutely reading another Susan Hill story.