The Quickening

A white-knuckle ride of a thriller . . . Immersive, enraging and terrifyingly plausibleErin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key

Your body. Their Choice.

The Hope Partys new laws have transformed Great Britain: the countryside rewilded, childrens rights prioritised, and births on the rise. But freedom is fading.

Karen has learned to navigate this new world, keeping her head down as her fertility is constantly monitored. As her husbands career thrives, while hers stalls. As her son is drawn into misogynist groups. Like everyone else, shes too frightened to speak up.

Until her teenage daughter reveals a life-changing secret: shes pregnant. With abortion and contraception banned, her future has gone up in flames. But Karen wont let this happen - Charlotte is going to have the life she lost.

Karen turns to her sister Isobel, a doctor whos initially reluctant to help. But when they learn Charlottes pregnancy is ectopic and life-threatening, the stakes skyrocket. The three women go on the run, getting deeper into danger with every hour that passes. With powerful enemies on their tail, they will risk everything in a desperate fight for freedom, and for life.

The Quickening is a powerful exploration of motherhood, sacrifice, and the terrifying cost of complicity. For fans of Vox, Red Clocks, and The Handmaids Tale.

[A] gripping, dystopian thriller . . . A timely and frightening take on the age-old battle for women to have rights over their own bodies, The Quickening is an essential - and chilling - readHeat magazine

So clever and terrifying and moving and compelling and thought-provoking Laura Marshall, author of Friend Request

Amazing premise and so well executed . . . One of my books of the year already Robyn Delvey, author of The Seven