Underbelly by Anna Whitehouse
Darkly voyeuristic but with heart - as funny as it is painful and true. We loved it GRAZIA I don t think I've ever turned the pages of a book so quickly. So sharp, so tender... truly excellent storytelling DAISY BUCHANAN Entertaining and playful but with huge depth, meaning, and heart. I raced through it EMMA GANNON Thrilling, exhilarating, devastating. A must-read LAURA JANE WILLIAMS Engrossing, fantastically written and painfully real. I laughed, sobbed, and got the chills JESSICA RYN UNDERBELLY [n.] singular The soft underside or abdomen of a mammal. An area is vulnerable to attack. A dark, hidden part of society. Lo and Dylan are living parallel lives, worlds apart. Lo is the ultimate middle-class mother, all perfectly polished Instagram posts and armchair activism. Dylan is just about surviving on a zero-hours telemarketing job from her flat, trying to keep food on the table. But when they meet at the school gates, they are catapulted into each others homes and lives - with devastating consequences . . . Explosive, sharply humorous, and unflinchingly honest, Underbelly slices through the filtered surface of modern women s lives to expose the dark truth beneath. Coming August 2021! Praise for Anna Whitehouse: Painful and funny - and painfully funny Emma Freud Thank God there is none of that smug, married-couple twattery in this book. I loved it Jane Garvey Fantastically unsmug Woman s Hour This book is a hoot - hilarious and heartfelt Emma Gannon Snort-tea-through-nose funny Cherry Healey This book left me laughing so very hard and equally blubbing with tears Jools Oliver
About the Author
Anna Whitehouse is the fiction-writing pseudonym for Anna Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson. Together, they are the co-authors of Sunday Times bestsellers Parenting the Sh*t Out of Life and Wheres My Happy Ending?. They are both journalists, co-founders of the website Mother Pukka and the Flex Appeal campaign to have flexible working enshrined as a legal right for all. Anna also presents a weekly show on Heart Radio. Underbelly is their first novel.