Nightbitch

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At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. She had imagined – what was it she had imagined? 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, quite suddenly, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. Sharper canines. Strange new patches of hair. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice.

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In suburban America, a stay-at-home mother unravels as isolation pushes her towards a shocking transformation.

Once an ambitious artist, the mother now spends her days caring for her young son while her husband travels for work. As her exhaustion and resentment build, she notices new instincts, new appetites, and a destabilising shift in her sense of self.

What begins as doubt hardens into something wilder. Her body changes. Her desires sharpen. In embracing the persona of ‘Nightbitch’ she confronts domestic confinement, creative frustration and the cultural expectations placed on women.

Blending the surreal with the intimate, this powerful novel of transformation and self-reclamation examines what is lost and what might be found when a woman refuses to remain obedient, grateful, and small.

‘OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN’ Bonnie Garmus

‘FERAL, UNHOLY… NIGHTBITCH IS AN INCREDIBLE FEAT’ Carmen Maria Machado

‘BRILLIANT’ Stylist

‘I TORE THROUGH IT’ Lisa McInerney

‘FUNNY AND UNNERVING AS HELL’ Jenny Offill

‘THE SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR TO ANGELA CARTER’ Evening Standard

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Weight 0.181 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.7 cm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

238

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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