Short-listed for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize, finalist for the 2014 Folio PrizeNamed one of the best fiction books of 2014 by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Independent andGlamour A Publishers Weekly
The experience of motherhood is an experience in contradiction. It is commonplace and it is impossible to imagine. It is prosaic and it is mysterious. It is at once banal, bizarre, compelling, tedious
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First NovelAgnes Day is mildly discontent. As a child, she never wanted to be an Agnes—she wanted to be a pleasing Grace. Alas, she remained the terminally middl
