{"product_id":"dark-lullaby-isbn-9781789094251","title":"Dark Lullaby","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, a mother desperately tries to keep her family together in a society where parenting standards are strictly monitored.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With fabulous world-building and a plot so tight you could bounce a quarter off of it, \u003ci\u003eDark Lullaby\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003ci\u003eHandmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e for the modern world, about the ways our human need for love can serve as both society's salvation, and its undoing.\"\u003cbr\u003eSarah Langan, author of \u003ci\u003eGood Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world is suffering an infertility crisis, the last natural birth was over twenty years ago and now the only way to conceive is through a painful fertility treatment. Any children born are strictly monitored, and if you are deemed an unfit parent then your child is extracted. After witnessing so many struggling to conceive – and then keep – their babies, Kit thought she didn’t want children. But then she meets Thomas and they have a baby girl, Mimi. Soon the small mistakes build up and suddenly Kit is faced with the possibility of losing her daughter, and she is forced to ask herself how far she will go to keep her family together.\u003ci\u003e'Dark Lullaby\u003c\/i\u003e is hard-hitting, mournful and deeply affecting, reading like the offspring of \u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e, and it addresses universal fears about early parenthood without providing easy answers. I raced through it and when I’d finished, it made me hug my own children tight.' Tim Major, author of \u003ci\u003eHope Island.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With fabulous world-building and a plot so tight you could bounce a quarter off of it, \u003ci\u003eDark Lullaby\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003ci\u003eHandmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e for the modern world, about the ways our human need for love can serve as both society's salvation, and its undoing.\"\u003cbr\u003eSarah Langan, author of \u003ci\u003eGood Neighbors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This gripping thriller has everything: beautiful writing, shedloads of tension, family drama. It made me grateful for my fragile freedoms.' \u003cbr\u003eEmily Koch, author of\u003ci\u003e If I Die Before I Wake\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDark Lullaby\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping story of love and desperation, of intimate and social structures, of sisterhood and motherhood that rings true as a bell. I devoured it.” Deirdre Sullivan, author of \u003ci\u003ePerfectly Preventable Deaths\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Polly Ho-Yen masterfully balances eerie, dream-like prose with a distressingly realistic portrayal of a world where reproductive right has become reproductive responsibility. To be a parent is to live with your heart outside your body and, through smart world-building, memorable characters and sharp insight, \u003ci\u003eDark Lullaby\u003c\/i\u003e perfectly encapsulates the power and terror of that love.\" Dave Rudden, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wintertime Paradox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A heart-wrenching and beautifully told novel, absolutely compelling, and scarily plausible. This is the best kind of speculative fiction: thoughtful, committed, alert to the outlines of a possible near-future, that inhabits your mind long after reading. One of the most important books to be published this year.\" Marian Womack, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Key\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An expertly crafted exploration of love and loss, with a truly haunting conclusion. Intimate, often poetic prose shines bright through the encroaching dread. Bleak, beautiful and bittersweet at every turn. I loved it.\" Martyn Ford, author of \u003ci\u003eEvery Missing Thing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Extrapolating from current trends in our surveillance society, it’s horrifyingly plausible\"\u003ci\u003e - \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"I cannot praise this book enough...this book perfectly describes what women go through as mothers, vacillating between being so happy we have a child to feeling like we can’t do this and probably never should have.\" -Seattle Book Review 5 star Review\u003cb\u003ePolly Ho-Yen\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Bristol with her husband. She used to be a primary-school teacher and now writes fiction for children (9-12 year olds) with a sci-fi or fantasy twist. She has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award. This is her first adult novel.","brand":"Titan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303532351717,"sku":"NP9781789094251","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781789094251.jpg?v=1767724514","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/dark-lullaby-isbn-9781789094251","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}