Cursed Bread by Clare Mackintosh

In a mid-century French town, a lonely baker’s wife becomes obsessed with a glamorous new arrival and her enigmatic husband, her fixation feeding on desire, envy, and the promise of escape. As strange hallucinations and illness spread through the community and suspicion settles on the daily bread, reality blurs with feverish fantasy, exposing the town’s simmering resentments, hidden cruelties, and the perilous hunger for power and belonging.