Fallow

'Ingenious... a brilliant debut' CARO CLAIRE BURKE, author of Yesteryear

'The book that everyone will be talking about' OLIVIA COLMAN

Meet Natalie: she hates work, but turns out she’s great at labour

Natalie has no skills or ambitions. The clock ticks away at the call centre where she works, while she tries to ignore the pain in her jaw. She has no dental insurance.

Then, a mysterious flyer leads her to The Company. Natalie turns out to be the perfect candidate for their in-house surrogacy program. The job: deliver seven healthy babies in ten years.

Suddenly, her every need is met. And during what Natalie comes to call her ‘fallow’ periods, she enjoys uncomplicated hedonism and gets drunk to endless games of Would You Rather.

But as Natalie nears the end of her contract, she carries a child for Jackie, who pulls her into a different kind of social experiment altogether. Living and working with a group of women in a rural idyll, she finds herself living in the ultimate Would You Rather. Natalie must decide: The Company or the commune?

‘What a joy’ KILEY REID

'Spectacular’ LAUREN GROFF

'Completely unputdownable' ARIA ABER

'Sharp, thought-provoking and a rollicking good time' AISLING RAWLE

'A kind of gonzo Handmaid’s Tale’ PETER HO DAVIES