Underbelly: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from Mother Pukka – the unmissable, gripping and electrifying fiction debut
Anna Whitehouse
Aug 2021 · Orion · Narrated by Jasmine Blackborow and Nathalie Buscombe
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'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
UNDERBELLY
[n.] singular
The soft underside or abdomen of a mammal.
An area 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 other's 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.
Read by Nathalie Buscombe and Jasmine Blackborow, featuring the authors.
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
'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
UNDERBELLY
[n.] singular
The soft underside or abdomen of a mammal.
An area 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 other's 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.
Read by Nathalie Buscombe and Jasmine Blackborow, featuring the authors.
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
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About the author
Anna Whitehouse is the fiction-writing pseudonym for Anna Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson. 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.
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