Expectation : what happened to the women we were supposed to become? - Anna Hope

Expectation

what happened to the women we were supposed to become?

By: Anna Hope

Paperback | 19 May 2020

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'The MOST BUZZED-ABOUT, ADDICTIVE read' STYLIST

An edgy, emotionally confronting, contemporary novel of friendship, sex, desire, motherhood and feminism.

What happened to the women we were supposed to become?
Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends.

Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be. Amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have. And each wrestles with the same question: what does it take to lead a meaningful life?

The most razor-sharp and heartbreaking novel of the year, Expectation is a novel about finding your way: as a mother, a daughter, a wife, a rebel.

FOR FANS OF SALLY ROONEY, My Sister the Serial Killer, DOLLY ALDERTON, ELIZABETH DAY AND FLEABAG

About the Author

Anna Hope was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, RADA, and Birkbeck College, London. She lives in East London. Wake is her first novel.
Industry Reviews

Profoundly intelligent and humane. Deserves to feature on many a prize shortlist
* Guardian *

A brilliant exploration of friendship, feminism and thwarted ambition
* Pandora Sykes *

One of the most intensely readable novels I've encountered this year
* METRO *

I loved it . . . 10 out of 10!
* BRYONY GORDON *

Will resonate with approximately 99 % of all women
* RED magazine summer pick *

Thoughtful, beautifully written, honest. A sensual book. I URGE YOU TO READ IT
* MARIAN KEYES *

Brilliant portrayal of long-term female friendships . . . I was gripped.
* Prima *

A Sally Rooney-esque evocative examination of female friendship
* BEST SUMMER READS, i-newspaper *

The real joy of this novel - while exploring just what second wave feminism has done for this generation of women ("you've had everything... we changed the world for you. For our daughters. And what have you done with it?") - is in it's writing; the dialogue and the honesty behind these characters who are doing their best, who are trying to live up to the fictional counterparts that they themselves have created... It's the perfect summer reading
* STYLIST MAGAZINE *

Absolutely encapsulates what it means to be a young woman today, and beyond
* Grazia Magazine *

Hope's writing is sublime and her characters so well fleshed out they will feel like friends at the end
* Good Housekeeping Book of the Year *

BEST BOOKS FOR JULY: Expectation has defied all my expectations and completely redefined the friendship novel. Each of the characters resonated with me and I'm in awe of the way Anna Hope captures what it means to be a woman, right here, right now, with all the precision of a surgeon's knife.
* Red Magazine Book of the Year *

EDITOR'S CHOICE: I enjoyed this contemporary novel about the gulf between the expectation of how life will turn out and the reality... [it] taps into the current conversation about finding fulfilment and living a meaningful life.
-- Alice O'Keeffe * The Bookseller *

Jaw-droppingly good
* SARRA MANNING *

Anna Hope has a way of getting inside difficult and painful moments, turning them inside out. I felt I knew these women as my own friends. Taut, electric, complex, funny.
* RACHEL JOYCE bestselling author of THE UNEXPECTED PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY *

Few novels leave me genuinely breathless with their brilliance. EXPECTATION is one of them. This book is beautiful. I am in AWE
* HANNAH BECKERMAN *

 

 

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