Explosive, sharply humorous and unflinchingly honest, Underbelly slices through the filtered surface of modern women's lives to expose the dark truth beneath. Tracing her family's story through continents and generations will take her deep into the dark heart of modern America.

The Stranding By Kate Sawyer | Used | 9781529340662 - Wob The Stranding By Kate Sawyer | Used | 9781529340662 - Wob

But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen's past, they soon realise that their lives will never be the same again. Too much love, too much fear, too much longing for the cool wine she gulps from the bottle each night.Both The High House and The Stranding invoke the story of Noah’s Ark, creating sealed-off family communities while implicitly asking what such survival could mean in a world without olive trees, or doves.

The Stranding by Kate Sawyer | Hachette UK

And then she meets Eric, a white, middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn't have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair. Because it uses global cataclysm as its isolating event, The Stranding can be further categorised as part of the post-apocalyptic robinsonade sub-genre, where it keeps company with such fine works as George R.This month I’m taking you on another journey, but this one couldn’t be more different – as it is a Post-Apocalyptic story.