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  • Published: 11 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473571341
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 9 hr 54 min
  • Narrator: Vinette Robinson

Expectation

The most razor-sharp and heartbreaking novel of the year




A fierce, emotional, contemporary novel about the pursuit of a meaningful life after disappointment: three women think they can have it all. But soon they realise that even having some of it can be a challenge. For fans of Zadie Smith, Sheila Heti and Sally Rooney.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Expectation by Anna Hope, read by Vinette Robinson.

Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends.

Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be. Amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have. And each wrestles with the same question: what does it take to lead a meaningful life?

EXPECTATION is a novel of the highs and lows of friendship – how it can dip, dive and rise again. It is also about finding your way: as a mother, a daughter, a wife, a rebel. Most of all, it explores that liminal space between expectation and reality, the place – full of dreams, desires and pain – in which we all live our lives.

  • Published: 11 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473571341
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 9 hr 54 min
  • Narrator: Vinette Robinson

About the author

Anna Hope

Anna Hope was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, RADA, and Birkbeck College, London. She lives in East London. WAKE is her first novel.

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