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

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'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

'Thrilling, exhilarating, devastating. A must-read' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS

'Engrossing, fantastically written and painfully real. I laughed, sobbed and got the chills' JESSICA RYN

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.

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Praise for Anna Whitehouse:

'Painful and funny - and painfully funny' Emma Freud

'Thank God there is none of that smug, married-couple twattery in this book. I loved it' Jane Garvey

'Fantastically unsmug' Woman's Hour

'This book is a hoot - hilarious and heartfelt' Emma Gannon

'Snort-tea-through-nose funny' Cherry Healey

'This book left me laughing so very hard and equally blubbing with tears' Jools Oliver

Reviews

A compelling story about the complexities of female friendships and the dark side of the Internet * HEAT *
Darkly voyeuristic but with heart - as funny as it is painful and true. We loved it * GRAZIA *

Timely reading for the Instagram generation

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I don't think I've ever turned the pages of a book so quickly. This is the first book I've read that really captures life online - the satire is so sharp, but the emotional core of the story is so tender and pulsing. This is truly excellent storytelling * DAISY BUCHANAN *
Anna and Matt write in their signature style: entertaining and playful but with huge depth, meaning and heart. Underbelly invites us all down the rabbit hole into the wild, weird and sometimes wonderful corners of the Internet. I raced through it * EMMA GANNON *

Author Bio

Anna Whitehouse is the fiction-writing pseudonym for Anna Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson. They are both journalists, co-founders of the website Mother Pukka and the Flex Appeal campaign to have flexible working enshrined as a legal right for all. Anna also presents a weekly show on Heart Radio. Underbelly is their first novel.