Description

In suburban America, a stay-at-home mother unravels as isolation pushes her towards a shocking transformation.

Once an ambitious artist, the mother now spends her days caring for her young son while her husband travels for work. As her exhaustion and resentment build, she notices new instincts, new appetites, and a destabilising shift in her sense of self.

What begins as doubt hardens into something wilder. Her body changes. Her desires sharpen. In embracing the persona of ‘Nightbitch’ she confronts domestic confinement, creative frustration and the cultural expectations placed on women.

Blending the surreal with the intimate, this powerful novel of transformation and self-reclamation examines what is lost and what might be found when a woman refuses to remain obedient, grateful, and small.

‘OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN’ Bonnie Garmus

‘FERAL, UNHOLY… NIGHTBITCH IS AN INCREDIBLE FEAT’ Carmen Maria Machado

‘BRILLIANT’ Stylist

‘I TORE THROUGH IT’ Lisa McInerney

‘FUNNY AND UNNERVING AS HELL’ Jenny Offill

‘THE SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR TO ANGELA CARTER’ Evening Standard

Publisher Review

Outrageous, gritty, smart, fun -- BONNIE GARMUS * Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry * 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 * Observer * I've been waiting my whole adult life for a read like this. Nightbitch is truly imaginative, utterly original, brave and brilliant - I devoured it. * Elaine Feeney, author of AS YOU WERE * A deliciously untamed satire on mothering and collapsed ambition... Yoder's descriptions of wild self-release are thrilling. -- Catherine Taylor * Financial Times * 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 * Guardian *