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Author: Whitehouse, Anna

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 5 August 2021 by Orion Publishing Co (Orion) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 352 pages
164 x 241 x 36 | 564g

‘Darkly voyeuristic but with heart – as funny as it is painful and true. We loved it’ GRAZIA’I don’t think I’ve ever turned the pages of a book so quickly. So sharp, so tender… truly excellent storytelling’ DAISY BUCHANANUNDERBELLY[n.] singular The soft underside or abdomen of a mammal.

An area vulnerable to attack.

A dark, hidden part of society.

Lo and Dylan are living parallel lives, worlds apart. Lo is the ultimate middle-class mother, all perfectly polished Instagram posts and armchair activism. Dylan is just about surviving on a zero-hours telemarketing job from her flat, trying to keep food on the table.

But when they meet at the school gates, they are catapulted into each other’s homes and lives – with devastating consequences . . . Explosive, sharply humorous and unflinchingly honest, Underbelly slices through the filtered surface of modern women’s lives to expose the dark truth beneath.