A compulsive, brilliant novel about race, class, family and power for fans of Celeste Ng, Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman
Joanne Ramos was born in the Philippines and moved to Wisconsin when she was six. She graduated with a BA from Princeton University. After working in investment banking and private-equity investing for several years, she wrote for the Economist as a staff writer. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children. This is her first novel.
This topical, provocative debut anatomises class, race and the
American dream
*Guardian*
An intelligent, thought-provoking, slyly satirical novel with
thrillerish elements, it is also affectingly illuminating about
life for an expatriate service class
*Sunday Times*
If you only read a single debut this year, make it The Farm
*Vogue, Must-Reads*
It’s so now … Ramos has crafted a real page-turner that combines
all the hottest issues of the day: inequality, race, and women’s
battle to reclaim their bodies from commodification by big
business, with the eternal questions of how much we can sacrifice
before losing ourselves completely
*The Times*
Her book is a necessary one – we need a mass-market novel that
shows the impact of colonisation … A great read
*Guardian*
Utterly brilliant. I couldn’t put it down!
*Christie Watson, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Language
of Kindness*
Crammed with acutely observed scenes that place reproduction within
an intricate web of class, gender and race
*Observer*
For those who can’t wait until September for Margaret Atwood’s
sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, here’s a handy interim stand-in.
Class, race and issues of power inequality are on the agenda almost
as much as gender in this novel about a fertility clinic where
surrogates have babies for the ultra-wealthy
*i paper*
Excellent … With echoes of The Help and The Handmaid’s Tale, The
Farm is tipped to be one of the biggest books of the summer, a
page-turner which strikes an entertaining balance between exploring
topical issues and telling a great story with thoroughly likeable
characters
*Daily Express*
An intelligent, thought-provoking, slyly satirical novel with
thrillerish elements, it is also affectingly illuminating about
life for an expatriate service class
*SUNDAY TIMES*
You can’t move for feminist dystopias in these Atwoodian times.
Joanne Ramos’s debut is one of the best
*The Times*
Intelligent and finely written ... Powerful
*I PAPER*
A narrative resembling a cross between Rosemary’s Baby and Dave
Eggers’s tech thriller The Circle … Addictive, thought-provoking
entertainment
*Daily Mail*
An easy read that raises difficult, capital-I issues … There’s
plenty to unsettle here
*Mail on Sunday*
A new Handmaid’s Tale
*Sun*
It’s a provocative idea, and Ramos nails it … Crisp and believable,
this smart debut links the poor and the 1 percent in a unique
transaction that turns out to be mutually rewarding
*People*
Chillingly plausible
*Sophie Mackintosh, author of the Booker-longlisted The Water
Cure*
Couldn’t be more relevant or timely
*O Magazine*
Unnervingly plausible
*Economist*
Everything has a price in this promising and compelling dystopian
debut
*Red, This Month’s Best Books*
Billed as the new Handmaid’s Tale, Joanne Ramos’s debut follows a
luxury yet terrifying retreat for surrogate mothers
*Grazia*
Ramos is good at making the dystopian feel contemporary, or perhaps
that should be the other way round … Ramos’s debut smuggles a sharp
attack on America’s entrenched inequality into a Handmaid’s
Tale-style chiller about surrogacy
*Metro*
An excoriation of capitalist exploitation, for dystopian darkness
and sinister consequences … Timely, resonant, morally complex
*Literary Review*
Brilliantly cutting
*Reni Eddo-Lodge, author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White
People About Race*
A knock-out debut novel
*Paula Daly, author of 'Open Your Eyes'*
Wow ... Truly unforgettable
*Gary Shteyngart*
It’s a provocative idea, and Ramos nails it … Crisp and believable,
this smart debut links the poor and the 1 percent in a unique
transaction that turns out to be mutually rewarding
*People*
Joanne Ramos’ tender, trenchant debut chillingly explores a
dystopian future where race, class, power and poverty all play
their part in paid-for pregnancies
*Psychologies*
One of the most hotly anticipated debuts this year – and for good
reason
*Cosmopolitan*
Smart and thought-provoking
*Stylist*
An unsettling, unputdownable read
*Elle*
The first debut of 2019 to grab the top spot for me ... Don't miss
this one
*Bookseller, Book of the Month*
The Farm terrifies with a simple question: How much of ourselves
are we willing to sell? With characters so real they leap off the
page, Ramos yanks the reader into a world of Haves and Have-Nots,
and her question lingers long after we turn the final page
*Christina Dalcher, author of Vox*
Amazing. It’s hard to explain what The Farm is about, because it's
about everything a book SHOULD be about. Race and class and power
and inequality, and it’s dark & funny ALL AT THE SAME TIME
*Joanna Cannon, Sunday Times bestselling author of Three Things
About Elsie and The Trouble with Goats and Sheep*
Ramos has written a firecracker of a novel, at once caustic and
tender, page-turning and thought-provoking. This is a fierce
indictment of the vampiric nature of modern capitalism, which never
loses sight of the very human stories at its center. Highly
recommended
*Madeline Miller, author of Circe*
The debut to order now ... Think Never Let Me Go meets The
Handmaid’s Tale
*Sunday Times*
A highly original and provocative story about the impossible
choices in so many women’s lives. These characters will stay with
me for a long time
*Karen Thompson Walker, author of 'The Age of Miracles'*
Consider this The Handmaid’s Tale of 2019 … In the vein of The
Circle, but somehow more penetrating and realistic
*MARIE CLAIRE*
Ramos creates a believable dystopian future where poor women try to
make money and change their societal standing by offering up their
bodies to house and deliver healthy babies for the rich. The novel
alternates perspectives between four women and provides notes on
fundamental inequalities
*EVENING STANDARD*
Excellent, both as a reproductive dystopian narrative and as a
social novel about women and class
*KIRKUS*
A delicately paced and finely wrought tale … A biting critique of
the world’s inequalities … Moving, ethically complex and gripping,
The Farm is a great novel
*Herald*
Compelling … Will really make you think
*GOOD HOUSEKEEPING*
It reads like a thriller but it is hard-hitting about race, money
and inequality
*BEST*
We loved this book
*TAKE A BREAK*
Joanne Ramos’s tender, trenchant debut chillingly explores a
dystopian future where race, class, power and poverty all play
their part in paid-for pregnancies
*PSYCHOLOGIES*
Unnervingly plausible
*ECONOMIST*
![]() |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
![]() |