Motherfaker by Anna Brook-Mitchell

Motherfaker follows an antisocial schoolteacher who has no interest in becoming a parent but is desperate for a break from work. Her solution is wildly simple in theory and far messier in practice: fake a pregnancy and claim the time off. Anna Brook-Mitchell takes this outrageous premise and turns it into a clever, darkly funny story about expectation, resentment and the performance of adulthood.

With wit and bite, this is a contemporary novel that plays with ideas of motherhood, work, identity and the roles women are expected to accept without question. A strong pick for readers who like their fiction irreverent, smart and just a little chaotic.

For fans of
Holly Wainwright, Dolly Alderton, contemporary feminist fiction, workplace satire, dark comedy about women and expectations.