For Adults
HQ is offering reading groups 10 copies of Other Parents, a searing exploration of British class politics and the tensions and prejudices of UK rural life, to read and review. Read on to find out how your group can get involved!
About Other Parents
In a small town like West Burntridge, it should be impossible to keep a secret. Rachel Saunders knows gossip is the price you pay for a rural lifestyle and outstanding schools. The latest town scandal is her divorce – and the fact that her new girlfriend has moved into the family home.
Laura Spence lives in a poky bedsit on the wrong side of town. She and her son Max don’t really belong, and his violent tantrums are threatening to expose the very thing she’s trying to hide. When the local school introduces a new inclusive curriculum, Rachel and Laura find themselves on opposite sides of a fearsome debate.
But the problem with having your nose in everyone else’s business is that you often miss what is happening in your own home.
Centred around the village school, Other Parents explores privilege, prejudice, poverty, class and sexual assault with astonishing sensitivity and wit.
How to get involved
To be in with a chance of winning 10 copies of Other Parents to read and review with your reading group, please complete the survey below by Tuesday 22 February. If successful, each of your members will be expected to share a review on Amazon, Goodreads, Waterstones and the Reading Groups for Everyone website within six weeks of receiving the books. Please only pitch if you can commit to this.
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If you have any questions about this offer, please get in touch with zoe.sadler@readingagency.org.uk.
