Ainslie Hogarth has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland and has published two YA horror novels, in the U.S. with Flux Books and France in with Editions Milan. The Lonely is about a girl who is crushed by a rock and bleeds to death all day long, and The Boy Meets Girl Massacre (Annotated) is about a girl who may or may not have murdered all of her friends with a pick-axe. Her short fiction has been published in Hazlitt, Black Static, and elsewhere. She is the author of Motherthing, a New York Times Best Book of the Year, was published in 2022.
A darkly satirical novel about 21st-century motherhood and women's
labour, full of waspish observations and the kind of caustic
epithets that had me underlining chunks. Hogarth is very funny on
motherhood's modern mores... She is especially hilarious on the
balance of domestic - and sexual - labour within Dani and husband
Clark's marriage
*Guardian*
A sardonic, high-speed novel about motherhood.... There is so much
to enjoy and admire here... Acutely observed, hilarious
*Irish Times*
A delicious dark comedy
*Stylist*
New motherhood in all its mesh-implanting, incontinence-inducing
horror and glory is both skewered and celebrated
*Daily Mail*
A dark take on suburban motherhood
*Big Issue*
Energetic... sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking and always
fully engaging. Unforgettable work by Hogarth - don't miss it
*Buzz Mag*
This spiky second novel veers off into mystery territory...
provocative takes on capitalism's intersection with domestic labour
and "momfluencer" culture.
*Observer*
Like Dani, the women who fall for such schemes have too much time
on their hands, an unsatisfied hunger for "more" - vaguely defined
- and such a burning need to be special that they'll take as a guru
anyone who pets their heads. Normal Women is particularly good at
teasing out this manipulative strand.
*Daily Telegraph*
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