The Quickening
The thrilling, feminist page-turner from the bestselling author of What You Did
$32.03
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
6 July 2026
Summary
Your body. Their Choice.
Great Britain, 2040. The Hope Party is in power, and their Future Generations laws have transformed the nation: the countryside is being rewilded, immigration curtailed, and births on the rise. But beneath the surface of this new order, freedom is fading.
Karen has learned to navigate this new world. A devoted wife to Tom, whose legal career thrives while hers has stalled, and a mother to seventeen-year-old twins, Rory and Charlotte. C…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472160416 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147216041X |
| Author: | Claire McGowan |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 22mm |
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So clever and terrifying and moving and compelling and thought-provoking * Laura Marshall, author of Friend Request *Amazing premise and so well executed … One of my books of the year already * Robyn Delvey, author of The Seven *A white-knuckle ride of a thriller that’s also a study of motherhood, power, cowardice and courage. In every chapter I found myself wondering what I would do in the characters’ shoes and found no easy answers. Immersive, enraging and terrifyingly plausible. * Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key *The not-so-distant future is a terrifyingly plausible place in The Quickening, but Claire McGowan has a gift for finding the grace and humanity in our darkest corners. A supremely good read * Louise Candlish, author of Our House *Relentlessly fast-paced and gripping, The Quickening is a chilling, high-octane blend of The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984. I loved it * Mark Edwards, author of The Magpies *
About The Author
Claire McGowan
Claire McGowan published her first novel in 2012 and followed it up with many others in the crime fiction genre, as well as in women’s fiction - writing as Eva Woods. She has had three radio plays broadcast on Radio 4, and her thrillers, What You Did and The Other Wife both went to number one on Kindle in the US and UK.
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