Underbelly

The instant Sunday Times bestseller from Mother Pukka – the unmissable, gripping and electrifying fiction debut

By: Anna Whitehouse

Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow, Nathalie Buscombe

Underbelly

[n.] singular

The soft underside or abdomen of a mammal.

An area vulnerable to attack.

A dark, hidden part of society.

Lo and Dylan are living parallel lives, worlds apart.

Lo is the ultimate middle-class mother, all perfectly polished Instagram posts and armchair activism. Dylan is just about surviving on a zero-hours telemarketing job from her flat, trying to keep food on the table. But when they meet at the school gates, they are catapulted into each other's homes and lives - with devastating consequences....

Explosive, sharply humorous and unflinchingly honest, Underbelly slices through the filtered surface of modern women's lives to expose the dark truth beneath.

Read by Nathalie Buscombe and Jasmine Blackborow, featuring the authors.

©2021 Anna Whitehouse (P)2021 Orion Publishing Group

Critic reviews

"Darkly voyeuristic but with heart - as funny as it is painful and true. We loved it." (Grazia)

"I don't think I've ever turned the pages of a book so quickly. So sharp, so tender...truly excellent storytelling." (Daisy Buchanan)

"Entertaining and playful but with huge depth, meaning and heart. I raced through it." (Emma Gannon)

Brilliantly beautiful story of the modern age

Can’t recommend this book more highly . What an insight into the 21st century struggles of friendships in the scrutiny of social media . Should we all go back to using 1980s nokia phones ? Or maybe just all decide to be honest and kind to one another x