{"product_id":"surrogate","title":"Surrogate","description":"Product Description\n\n\n'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT'A fantastic book club choice' PRIMAWould you have a baby for your daughter?Ruth has the life she always wanted - stellar career, loving family, beautiful home - but now, with an empty nest, and heading towards 55, she feels restless. Then her daughter is told that she will never be able to conceive, and Ruth discovers that, with the right dose of hormones, she could carry a child for her daughter. At first Ruth is buoyed with a new sense of purpose, but her daughter can't contain her corrosive envy, and then long-buried secrets from the past resurface. What begins a simple gift becomes something darker and more complicated - and something for which Ruth is willing to risk everything...'Gripping' COSMOPLITAN'Full of drama . . . as much about womanhood as it is about motherhood' GUARDIAN'Compulsive' KATE HAMER'Clever and compelling. I loved it' JANE SHEMILT\n\n\nReview\n\n\nBoth a thoughtful read exploring mother-daughter relationships, marriage and ageing, and\nan absolute belter of a page-turner. One to tell all your friends about -- Caroline Robb ―\nHeat\n\n\nFull of drama . . .\nAs much about womanhood as it is about motherhood ―\nGuardian\n\n\nDark and twisty -- Natasha Harding ―\nThe Sun\n\n\nA fantastic book club choice, this will spark debate and discussions aplenty. After multiple rounds of failed IVF, Lauren and her husband feel completely deflated, so when Lauren's 54-year-old mother, Ruth, offers to be a surrogate, it seems perfect.\nCompelling -- Nina Pottell ―\nPrima\n\n\n[A]\ngripping exploration of femininity and motherhood -- Deirdre O'Brien ―\nBest\n\nA darkly humorous, thoughtful and thought provoking novel, along with being\nan absolute \"up all night\" compulsive read.\nI loved it ―\nKate Hamer\n\nUnsparingly probes to the messy heart of mother\/ daughter relationships.\nClever and compelling. I loved it  ―\nJane Shemilt\n\nA\nbrilliantly structured, fast-paced and addictively compelling read. I loved the ending most of all ―\nRachel Joyce\n\n\nMoving and exciting and moral - immensely intelligent ―\nTessa Hadley\n\nA\nvisceral and intimate study of the mechanics of womanhood, both physically and emotionally, which\nwill leave you asking questions about yourself and how far love stretches. I especially\nloved the ending ―\nAraminta Hall\n\n\nA fascinating, compulsive and quietly transgressive novel that casts a keen, exacting eye over the dynamics of a family in extremis ―\nJessica Moor, author of Keeper\n\nThere is nowhere near enough writing out there about how women truly experience the conflicting marvels and challenges of living inside a female body, even less about the menopause.\nTransgressive and gripping, this book reminds us that we disregard women over fifty at our peril ―\nGabriel Weston\n\n\nA piercingly honest view of the flesh and blood of women's lives and the imperfect tangles of family relationships. These real, believable and maddeningly blind characters make us feel for them more and more as the story gathers pace towards a\nbrilliant heart-stopping conclusion ―\nMaggie Gee\n\nA\ngripping read. I found it\nhard to put down. Addresses issues of self-identity and how it is shaped by our fertility, which as a woman, mother, and author researching and writing about women's fertility and bodies, I found\n fascinating ―\nDr Pragya Agarwal\n\n\nCompulsively readable,\nSurrogate takes an interesting look at the complex and sometimes murky world of surrogacy and raises questions about issues to which there are no simple answers -- Mernie Gilmore ―\nDaily Record\n\n\nBook Description\n\n\nFor fans of\nLullaby and\nApple Tree Yard, a gripping debut novel of relationships, mothers and secrets...\n\n\nFrom the Inside Flap\n\n\nRuth Furnival is a successful television executive with a seemingly perfect life: a nice house in London, a lawyer husband and two grown-up daughters. But at 54, with an empty nest and the menopause behind her, she feels restless and dissatisfied. After multiple rounds of failed IVF, her eldest daughter ","brand":"Virago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39668005896277,"sku":"9780349013770N","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/fc76173c-5ecf-43c5-b934-4c9283446eb3.jpg?v=1639145427","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/surrogate","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}