Nightbitch

For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood

Looking for a summer read with bite?

‘BRILLIANT’ Stylist
‘TERRIFICALLY ALIVE’ Observer
‘INCREDIBLE’ Carmen Maria Machado
‘I TORE THROUGH IT’ Lisa McInerney

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else…

At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind.

Instead, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice…

‘The spiritual successor to Angela Carter’ Evening Standard

‘Funny and unnerving as hell’ Jenny Offill

‘Deliciously untamed… Thrilling’ Financial Times

Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Imprint: Vintage UK
Publication date: 07/07/2022