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Nightbitch

By: Rachel Yoder
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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Brought to you by Penguin.

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING AMY ADAMS

Are you looking for a book with bite?

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...

Written as a howl against biology, history and the patriarchy, Nightbitch uproariously explores how traditional structures of power and gender continue to shape our experiences of mothering. Outrageously enjoyable, deeply clever and joyfully subversive, it is a book about finding the freedom to love and live as we want and need, whatever form this takes.

'OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN' Bonnie Garmus, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry

'FUNNY AND UNNERVING AS HELL' Jenny Offill

'The spiritual successor to Angela Carter' Evening Standard

©2021 Rachel Yoder (P)2021 Penguin Audio Dark Humour Family Life Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction

Critic Reviews

Yoder's voice is precise and funny, pitch-perfect... This is a terrifically alive and imaginative tale... an important contribution to the engagement with motherhood that rightly dominates contemporary feminism. (Lara Feigel)
A deliciously untamed satire on mothering and collapsed ambition... Yoder's descriptions of wild self-release are thrilling. (Catherine Taylor)
Yoder's commentary on the assorted neuroses of modern womanhood is graceful and coolly incisive... She infuses new life into the cold, furry flesh of the monstrous femme. (AK Blakemore)
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Not in a bad way, necessarily, but I didn't like it while I was reading it. I was like "man, this is fascinating... too bad it's not what I wanted".
I figure I'm gonna read it again next year and absolutely love it, but that cover just sold me something different. Luckily the movie is coming out and I'm absolutely enthralled to see what they do there. I'm still gonna give it a second go after the movie, but I reckon I'm gonna love the movie.

An objectively amazing novel but not what I wanted

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I don't usually wrote reviews, but I had to as Rachel connected with me, my own mother monster, in a way I struggled to describe to everyone around me since my son's arrival. Thank you so much for everyone who were behind the scenes to get this story to me. It is life changing.

Your Mother Monster Guide

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This book is excellent. Totally off the wall concept presented as a matter of fact suburban transformation. Try know as little as possible about it before starting it. So good.

Amazingly weird in all the right ways

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I loved the concept and story, but overall did not find it was engaging and I found myself wanting the book to end

Loved the concept

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I think anyone mothering a young family could find aspects of themselves in this book. cathartic

mother rage

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