This Is Where We Live
$27.64
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2024
Summary
This Is Where We Live: A Novel
The astonishing, inventive debut novel, for readers of Daisy Johnson and Rachel Yoder’s *Nightbitch*
A single mother wakes to blood in her mouth and flesh under her fingernails. A severed toe on the doorstep. A boy missing.
But her child needs to get to school. There’s a food shop to be done. Parents evenings, play dates and pasta for tea.
Raising her child alone, she’s done all she can to protect them. But what…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008559304 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0008559309 |
| Author: | Kate Hardie |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
‘The most gripping account of motherhood since Rachel Cusks’s A Life’s Work’ Independent
‘A blistering roar against a society far too quick to judge mothers’ Financial Times
‘Punches you in the guts with beauty, pain and brevity, and pulls you along with the compulsion of a thriller. It’s about what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman’ Abi Morgan
‘This taut, elliptical debut questions what makes a monster’ Marie Claire
About The Author
Kate Hardie
Kate Hardie is an actor and screenwriter, her acting work includes The Krays, MonaLisa, the award winning Safe and more recently National Treasure. She has written and directed for Channel Four The BFI and Sky and is due to direct her first feature. She has also taught screen writing and directing, lectured and advised on representation and diversity within the film industry, and written essays and articles for the Guardian and Dazed. She is mother to one and lives in London with her husband. This Is Where We Live is her debut novel.
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