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Author_Kate Maxwell
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Product details
- ISBN 9780349015088
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 142 x 218mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2022
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A GRAZIA BOOK OF THE YEAR'A daring, compelling novel about motherhood' Cosmopolitan'Beautifully written' i Paper'Brilliantly explores the societal expectations put on women' Harper's Bazaar'Utterly compelling' Irish Independent'I devoured this book' Clover Stroud'A richly textured novel showing what it means to be a woman with multiple sides ... I was absolutely glued to it' Emma Gannon_____________________________________________________________________What if the thing you most wanted feels nothing like you expected?Stevie's life seems full: she has a successful career and a glamorous social life in New York. But what she wants most is a baby, an aspiration that feels impossible for a single woman in her late 30s.Determined to be a mother, Stevie returns home to London and has a baby on her own. Soon, though, she finds motherhood painfully at odds with her former life and wonders if she's made a terrible mistake.As she struggles with her new reality and what her future might hold, Stevie is forced to face difficult truths about her past and reconsider everything she believed about family and love.
Kate Maxwell was born in London and has worked as a journalist, editor and broadcaster in London and New York. Hush is her first novel and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize's Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award.
