Fallow
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Publishing:21st Jan '27
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 21st January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
'Ingenious... a brilliant debut' CARO CLAIRE BURKE, author of Yesteryear
'The book that everyone will be talking about' OLIVIA COLMAN
Meet Natalie: she hates work, but turns out she’s great at labour
Natalie has no skills or ambitions. The clock ticks away at the call centre where she works, while she tries to ignore the pain in her jaw. She has no dental insurance.
Then, a mysterious flyer leads her to The Company. Natalie turns out to be the perfect candidate for their in-house surrogacy program. The job: deliver seven healthy babies in ten years.
Suddenly, her every need is met. And during what Natalie comes to call her ‘fallow’ periods, she enjoys uncomplicated hedonism and gets drunk to endless games of Would You Rather.
But as Natalie nears the end of her contract, she carries a child for Jackie, who pulls her into a different kind of social experiment altogether. Living and working with a group of women in a rural idyll, she finds herself living in the ultimate Would You Rather. Natalie must decide: The Company or the commune?
‘What a joy’ KILEY REID
'Spectacular’ LAUREN GROFF
'Completely unputdownable' ARIA ABER
'Sharp, thought-provoking and a rollicking good time' AISLING RAWLE
'A kind of gonzo Handmaid’s Tale’ PETER HO DAVIES
I loved Fallow. Funny, intelligent and unputdownable, this is the book that everyone will be talking about -- Olivia Colman
Fallow sits smartly at the axis of corporate markets and motherhood. It joins a literary tradition of women discovering who they are while their bodies evolve in astounding ways. What a joy to be in Natalie’s head—a young woman who hates to work but doesn't shy away from labor. Fallow is a delightfully sharp, dynamic debut -- Kiley Reid
Fallow is a spectacular debut: hilarious, sly, sharp, and extraordinarily thoughtful about the knotty philosophical issues that arise where capitalism and the body meet. Sarah Anderson is a dazzling new talent -- Lauren Groff
Unputdownable... Fallow speaks directly to these mixed-up times. I loved this novel. It sings in so many registers and with so much heart. Sarah Anderson is a major new talent -- Julie Buntin
Fallow is a sly marvel of a novel: a witty, vivacious page-turner that doubles as a wry critique of capitalism, corporate culture, and reproductive politics. Sarah Anderson’s debut — a kind of gonzo Handmaid’s Tale—is simply dazzling in its audacity and invention -- Peter Ho Davies
Fallow is sharp, thought-provoking and a rollicking good time. Anderson tackles the false promises of comfort and commodity with wonderful wit and insight; this is a story that will linger. -- Aisling Rawle
Sarah Anderson’s imaginative debut posits a world in which the corporate has almost wholly consumed the human. So disturbingly plausible it can scarcely be considered satire, Fallow is a very funny book about work and ambition, the faltering systems that dictate much of contemporary life, and the possibility of another way forward -- Rumaan Alam
Completely unputdownable -- Aria Aber
Fallow is a fast-paced, unexpectedly personal deconstruction of capitalism. Natalie thrilled, charmed, and angered me; by the end, I didn’t want to let her go -- Albertine Clarke
A complete riot. Searingly funny and impossible to put down, Fallow is inventive, astute and terrifyingly believable. Sinking back into Natalie’s world quickly became the best part of my day. A deliciously fun book – the kind you devour, all the while hoping it’ll never end. -- Augustine Cerf
ISBN: 9781787336643
Dimensions: 240mm x 156mm x 40mm
Weight: 500g
336 pages