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Author: Hardie, Kate

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 4 July 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 192 pages
195 x 130 x 15 | 174g

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 if she’s the thing they need protecting from the most?