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Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
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Published: 03/03/2022
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ISBN: 9781529151329
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Length: 336 Pages
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Dimensions: 240mm x 32mm x 162mm
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Weight: 555g
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RRP: £12.99
The School for Good Mothers
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‘a Handmaid’s Tale for the 21st century’ India Knight
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'A taut and propulsive take on the cult of motherhood and the notion of what makes a good mother. Destined to be feminist classic - it kept me up at night' PANDORA SYKES
'A haunting tale of identity and motherhood - as devastating as it is imaginative' AFUA HIRSCH
'Incredibly clever, funny and pertinent to the world we're living in at the moment' DAISY JOHNSON
'We have your daughter'
Frida Liu is a struggling mother. She remembers taking Harriet from her cot and changing her nappy. She remembers giving her a morning bottle. They'd been up since four am.
Frida just had to finish the article in front of her. But she'd left a file on her desk at work. What would happen if she retrieved it and came back in an hour? She was so sure it would be okay.
Now, the state has decided that Frida is not fit to care for her daughter. That she must be re-trained. Soon, mothers everywhere will be re-educated. Will their mistakes cost them everything?
The School for Good Mothers is an explosive and thrilling novel about love and the pressures of perfectionism, parenthood and privilege.
'A timely and remarkable debut' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO
'An absolutely gripping debut' FRANCHES CHA
'Original . . . Terrifying' NEW YORK TIMES
'Explosive' OPRAH DAILY
'Enthralling' PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
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Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
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Published: 03/03/2022
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ISBN: 9781529151329
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Length: 336 Pages
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Dimensions: 240mm x 32mm x 162mm
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Weight: 555g
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RRP: £12.99
Reviews
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A taut and propulsive take on the cult of motherhood and the notion of what makes a good mother. Destined to be feminist classic - it kept me up at night
Pandora Sykes
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This beautifully lucid, crisp first novel is like a Handmaid's Tale for the 21st century, but both easier going and more devastating. Is a mother's love ever good enough? Does becoming a mother mean mothballing all your former selves for good? There is fury behind Chan's precise and elegant prose, and sly humour too. A must-read
India Knight, Sunday Times
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A haunting tale of identity and motherhood - as devastating as it is imaginative
Afua Hirsch
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Examining race, privilege and the pressures of perfectionism, it will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere
Elle UK
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A clever premise, well executed in lean, lucid prose - The Handmaid's Tale for the Squid Game generation
The Telegraph
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A riveting, thought-provoking read
Daily Mail
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The School for Good Mothers imagines a world terrifyingly close to our own - a world in which the slightest parenting misstep, the tiniest error of judgement, is enough for the authorities to remove your child and send you for 're-education'. One for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and any exhausted parent who has fantasised - if only for a moment - about getting in the car and driving far, far away from it all
Refinery29 UK
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It's a gripping debut - claustrophobic in its evocation of heartbreaking injustice, nightmarishly plausible in the tyrannical perfectionism that powers it
Mail on Sunday
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Impossible to stop reading -- Chan captures the terrifying helplessness of a mother making bad choices and losing control in a fascinating dystopia of state surveillance. This brilliant rendering of a flawed and complicated heroine highlights many compelling issues of race and expectations of motherhood, with masterful storytelling of love and heartbreak and terror and suspense
Frances Cha
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A timely and remarkable debut
Carmen Maria Machado, author of HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES
