When It’s Ready to Cook by Cliff McNish
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Alex only wanted a ride to London. Instead, he’s about to witness a birth no human being was ever meant to see.
Alex is soaked, strung out, and stranded beside the M1 in the pouring rain when a stranger finally offers him a ride to London.
Nick is huge, ugly, covered in occult tattoos, and driving far too fast. But Alex has accepted lifts from worse. Probably.
Then Nick announces that his wife is about to give birth.
What begins as an unwanted detour becomes something far more disturbing when Alex is dragged into a filthy flat where a terrified young woman is waiting. She needs help. Nick insists Alex is exactly the man for the job. And the more Alex learns about the couple, the pregnancy, and the grotesque little nativity taking shape around them, the less any of it makes sense.
Except one thing.
Whatever is coming, it isn’t human.
Trapped between a woman desperate to survive, a father with monstrous ambitions, and a birth that should never have been possible, Alex is forced into a role he never asked for—and toward a choice that may demand more courage than he has left.
From Cliff McNish, When It’s Ready to Cook is a vicious, darkly funny descent into brutal body horror, religious terror, and one truly unholy family occasion.