*Shortlisted for the 2026 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction*
'I raced through it' - Daily Mail
'A bold, brilliant and bonkers caper' - Alexandra Potter, author of Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up
'Brilliantly original and hilariously executed' - Rosie Walsh, author of The Love of My Life
Are you sick of slogging your guts out without recognition, covering for other people, running on empty? Sometimes all you need is a break.
Meet Barri Brown. Respected teacher. Upstanding citizen of gorgeous Guernsey. Recently passed over for a promotion and then dumped by her husband, she's totally desperate for some time off.
So, she tells a tiny white lie and suddenly it snowballs into a grand plan for a year off. Before she knows it, she's so busy pretending to be something she's not that she's forgotten what was important in the first place.
All she wanted was a bit of time to herself. She couldn't have imagined where that would lead her . . .
From award-winning comedy writer Anna Brook-Mitchell, Motherfaker is the perfect read for fans of Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey and All The Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman.
'Funny, moving, relatable and keeps you on the edge of your seat' - Libby Page, author of The Lido
'Brilliantly funny' - Stylist
'This book will make you guffaw out loud' - Prima
Readers love Motherfaker!
'A rare mix of laugh-out-loud funny, moving and compelling'
'Clever, tender, and impossible to put down - an absolute joy from start to finish'
'Funny, emotional, heart-wrenching and action-packed, with an idyllic Guernsey location'
'Hilarious, touching, emotional, infuriating and a bit bonkers'
'A fantastic debut that I just wanted to keep reading!'