Underbelly

Darkly voyeuristic but with heart — as funny as it is painful and true. We loved it GRAZIA

I don't think I've ever turned the pages of a book so quickly. So sharp, so tender... truly excellent storytelling DAISY BUCHANAN

Entertaining and playful but with huge depth, meaning and heart. I raced through it EMMA GANNON

Thrilling, exhilarating, devastating. A must-read LAURA JANE WILLIAMS

Engrossing, fantastically written and painfully real. I laughed, sobbed and got the chills JESSICA RYN

Underbelly [n.] singular

The soft underside or abdomen of a mammal.

An area vulnerable to attack.

A dark, hidden part of society.

Lo and Dylan are living parallel lives, worlds apart.

Lo is the ultimate middle-class mother, all perfectly polished Instagram posts and armchair activism.

Dylan is just about surviving on a zero-hours telemarketing job from her flat, trying to keep food on the table.

But when they meet at the school gates, they are catapulted into each other's homes and lives - with devastating consequences...

Explosive, sharply humorous and unflinchingly honest, Underbelly slices through the filtered surface of modern women's lives to expose the dark truth beneath.

Praise for Anna Whitehouse:

Painful and funny - and painfully funny Emma Freud

Thank God there is none of that smug, married-couple twattery in this book. I loved it Jane Garvey

Fantastically unsmug Woman's Hour

This book is a hoot - hilarious and heartfelt Emma Gannon

Snort-tea-through-nose funny Cherry Healey

This book left me laughing so very hard and equally blubbing with tears Jools Oliver