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Nightbitch

By: Rachel Yoder
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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Are you looking for a book with bite?

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else...

At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind.

Instead, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice...

Written as a howl against biology, history and the patriarchy, Nightbitch uproariously explores how traditional structures of power and gender continue to shape our experiences of mothering. Outrageously enjoyable, deeply clever and joyfully subversive, it is a book about finding the freedom to love and live as we want and need, whatever form this takes.

'OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN' Bonnie Garmus, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry

'FUNNY AND UNNERVING AS HELL' Jenny Offill

'The spiritual successor to Angela Carter' Evening Standard

©2021 Rachel Yoder (P)2021 Penguin Audio Dark Humour Family Life Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction

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Critic reviews

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)
A deliciously untamed satire on mothering and collapsed ambition... Yoder's descriptions of wild self-release are thrilling. (Catherine Taylor)
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)
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One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else...

At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind.

Instead, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice...
Initially I though this was going to be another boring attack on the so called Patriarchy that I have never experienced. I am a middle aged man and at no time in my life have I felt privileged, advantaged or any other positive made up word for the life I was leading. I have worked beside women and earned exactly the same as them for the same job. Anyway rant over. This book made me laugh out loud and Cassandra Campbell's performance was good. However the whole experience left me feeling "bleeh!" So I do not know how I felt about this book. And to be honest that is a good thing. I will re listen in the near future and it has made me think about a lot of things. I simply cannot put them into words at the moment.

NOT SURE WHAT TO THINK

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As a mother myself I related a lot to what was happening in the story and I am thinking that at the end we adapt and accept our own made doings and realities 🤷🏻‍♀️

Anger and Acceptance

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Honest, entertaining and totally relatable as a Mother. Full of symbolism, fiction, fact and deepest truths.

Bloody awesome

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Not my usual genre, as a new mother I was worried to read it. A thought provoking book about the wild untamed nature of motherhood and its pressures. Worth the listen.

Interesting read for a new mother

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Loved it! Loved it! Loved it! Entertaining and stylistically perfect. Brilliant denouement. Woof woof woof woof woof woof aoooooooo..!

Imaginative and gripping

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Although the synopsis may seem like fiction the claustrophobic atmosphere created around the suffering of motherhood in this book is all too real!

Although fictitious it was the reality of motherhood

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A new stay at home mother deals with her loneliness when her husband frequently travels for work and seems to be turning into a dog. Great story telling narrated professionally. Very engaging and highly recommended .

Magic realism and dogs - what’s not to like?

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Best book I’ve read in a long time - it will make you so angry you have to put it down, but it will be so brilliant you have to pick it back up

Astounding

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I feel recognised as a fellow feral woman - howl, growl and sink your hands into mud and eat raw meat and tear into everything. we are of course, all animals

transformative

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Some very interesting themes and a more unusual story, which was enjoyable. I found however that it took quite some time for the story to advance and I wanted to get past the more mundane sections to discover more about Nightbitch.

Often feels slow, but an interesting story

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