Book Club: Hush with Kate Maxwell

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January’s Theme is Decision Making and for our Book Club this month we hear from Kate Maxwell the author of Hush.

Synopsis

After five exhilarating years in New York, Stevie has a successful career and a glamorous social life. But what she most wants is a baby, an aspiration that feels impossible given that she is single, thirty-eight and living in a tiny apartment in Manhattan, far away from most of her family in England.

Determined to become a mother, Stevie returns to London and has a baby on her own. When she gives birth to Ash, she finds motherhood painfully at odds with her former life and her expectations.

She begins to wonder if having a child was a mistake – and what she might be willing to do to escape. As she struggles with her new reality and what her future might hold, revelations from the past change everything she believed about family and love.

About Kate

Kate Maxwell has worked as a journalist and editor in London and New York. Hush is her first novel and was shortlisted for the Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award. She lives in London with her husband and children.