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  • Published: 5 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529113990
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $26.00
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Nightbitch

Stylist’s summer cult breakout




For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood

Are you looking for a book with bite?

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

'BRILLIANT' Stylist

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...

'INCREDIBLE' Carmen Maria Machado

'I TORE THROUGH IT' Lisa McInerney

'FUNNY AND UNNERVING AS HELL' Jenny Offill

'The spiritual successor to Angela Carter' Evening Standard

  • Published: 5 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529113990
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $26.00
Categories:

Praise for Nightbitch

I could not love a novel more than Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch. It's such a uniquely brilliant book... magical, dark, and funny.

Kevin Wilson, author of NOTHING TO SEE HERE

Feral, unholy... Nightbitch is an incredible feat.

Carmen Maria Machado, author of IN THE DREAM HOUSE

I've been waiting my whole adult life for a read like this. Nightbitch is truly imaginative, utterly original, brave and brilliant - I devoured it.

Elaine Feeney, author of AS YOU WERE

An electric work by an ingenious new voice, this is one to devour.

Starred review, Publishers Weekly

The most original book I've read in ages; blistering, enraged and very funny.

Editor's Choice, The Bookseller

Joyfully demented... I tore through it. This is going to be massive.

Lisa McInerney, author of THE RULES OF REVELATION

Touches on a kaleidoscope of themes, from female rage to the loss of self that accompanies motherhood, all of it undergirded by feral, ferocious scenes... Unforgettable.

Esquire.com, Best Books of 2021

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, Guardian

A deliciously untamed satire on mothering and collapsed ambition... Yoder's descriptions of wild self-release are thrilling.

Catherine Taylor, Financial Times

For anyone raging at the patriarchy, Nightbitch is a brilliant read.

Stylist

Sharp and smart.

Martha Sprackland, Literary Review

Graceful, funny and unnerving as hell.

Jenny Offill, author of DEPT. OF SPECULATION and WEATHER

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, Observer

Mad, heartfelt, very funny, and unexpectedly charming.

Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

Outrageous, gritty, smart, fun

BONNIE GARMUS, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry