- Kate Hardie

This Is Where We Live

By Kate Hardie

’The most gripping account of motherhood since Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work’ Independent

A single mother wakes to blood in her mouth and flesh under her fingernails. A severed toe on the doorstep. A boy missing.

But her child needs to get to school. There’s a food shop to be done. Parents evenings, play dates and pasta for tea.

Raising her child alone, she’s done all she can to protect them. But what if she’s the thing they need protecting from the most?

Author: Kate Hardie
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 06 Jul 2023
Pages: 192
ISBN: 978-0-00-855926-7
Kate Hardie is an actor and screenwriter, her acting work includes The Krays, MonaLisa, the award winning Safe and more recently National Treasure. She has written and directed for Channel Four The BFI and Sky and is due to direct her first feature. She has also taught screen writing and directing, lectured and advised on representation and diversity within the film industry, and written essays and articles for the Guardian and Dazed. She is mother to one and lives in London with her husband. This Is Where We Live is her debut novel.

”'Punches you in the guts with beauty, pain and brevity, and pulls you along with the compulsion of a thriller. Lean, exquisite prose that shoots a dart to the heart. It’s about what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, trying to grapple with her sanity, as she unravels and makes sense of her present by reaching back into her past. I adored it.” - Abi Morgan