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By (author): Helen Phillips

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2019
A New York Times 2019 Notable Book
2019 BOOK OF THE YEAR: Oprah Magazine, Time, Vulture, and Entertainment Weekly

'The Need is a profound meditation on the nature of reality, a fearless examination of parenthood, and also somehow a thriller. This is an extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writers' Emily St. John Mandel

She crouched in front of the mirror in the dark, clinging to them. The baby in her right arm, the child in her left.
There were footsteps in the other room...

Molly is exhausted, anxious, losing her grip on reality. Her husband is away and she is running between her children and her job, where things are unravelling. She’s a paleobotanist, working at a fossil quarry, and has recently unearthed artefacts that defy understanding; the coke bottle with the lettering that leans the wrong way, an alternate version of the Bible. Where do these things come from?

At home, as dusk falls, she gets jumpy. Are those footsteps out in the hall? What was that noise? She holds her two small children close to her, and tries to pull herself together. But her worlds of work and home are about to collide. She discovers that the stranger in her sitting room knows everything about her life and, as their identity becomes chillingly clear, this intruder makes a demand of Molly that upends everything, forcing her to reckon with her most unspeakable fears.

The Need is a gripping, unsettling and stunningly original story that probes deep truths about motherhood, and explores grief, loss and how we treat others. It's a compulsive, reality-warping novel that makes us rethink our world, and question how far we would go to protect the ones we love.


'The atmosphere is as close and taut as a thriller, but this is, in fact, both a highly original examination of grief and an extraordinarily vivid evocation of motherhood -- the moments of terror and hilarity, the visceral burden of it, and the fleeting, but almost transcendent, joy' Daily Mail

'A chilling novel from a blazing talent' Observer

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Product Details
  • Weight: 392g
  • Dimensions: 144 x 222mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Aug 2019
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784742843

About Helen Phillips

HELEN PHILLIPS is the author of five books. Her collection Some Possible Solutions received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat, a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. Helen has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times and Tin House, and on Selected Shorts. She is an associate professor at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

www.helencphillips.com.

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