Paperback
This Is Where We Live
By Kate Hardie
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?
”'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