raw content

'raw content is a work of dark, aching beauty. This is the side of new motherhood we're still learning to speak: violent, tender, clarified - and ringing with determination and love. No one writes about landscape and the body the way that Booth does, and no one captures the strange lines of connection that run between them with such visceral precision. Brimming with Booth's love of language and literature, and her irrevocable knack for revealing us to ourselves' * Helen Jukes, author of Mother Animal *
'A brooding and bruising psychodrama about the anxieties of 21st century motherhood, linking the primal potency of the female body with the bleak northern landscape's terrible beauty' * Stu Hennigan, author of Ghost Signs *
'A luminous and visceral novel about new motherhood. Booth skillfully portrays a young woman's unravelling against the backdrop of a grittily beautiful Yorkshire landscape. No other novel has explored the terrifying and joyful transformations of parenthood with such dazzling power' * Abi Curtis, author of The Headland *
'raw content is contemporary fiction at its most welcoming and shattering. Barbed and brave . . . Booth produces fractals of regional and familial peril and paranoia. Yet this book remains generous, compassionate [and] so acutely observed' * Tom Benn, author of Oxblood *
'An exquisite portrait of mental unravelling, with beauty amidst banality, darkness and chaos . . . Lightness, violence, comedy, brutality, tenderness - all are held in balance' * Kate Murray-Browne, author of One Girl Began *
A stunning mix of horror and tenderness, love and despair. It's rare to see such a raw and real account of early motherhood -- Kirsty Logan, author of The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir
'Beautifully written, honest and gritty' * The Sun *
'Raw Content is a beautiful and thought-provoking story of post-natal mental health, violence, paranoia and unconditional love in all it's forms... and the landscape of Yorkshire is beautifully depicted weaving a thread through the narrative. Another five-star read from Naomi Booth' * New Books Magazine *