"AT LEAST I GET MY DINNERS FREE": TRANSGRESSIVE DINING IN MARGHANITA LASKI'S TO BED WITH GRAND MUSIC.

The article analyzes Marghanita Laski's novel "To Bed With Grand Music," which explores issues of gender expectations and uses popular understandings of food consumption as a vehicle to approach topics of female sexuality and sexual agency. In this novel, Laski allegedly addresses the issues of wartime sexuality and of infidelity in a more nuanced and neutral manner. The novel's success reportedly lies in the consistent refusal by Deborah to adhere to the wartime expectations for women.