The Other Mothers

Tash is a freelance journalist without a story, a new mother without money, and an outsider at the North London playgroup where the other mothers have townhouses, nannies, and effortless lives. When Laura and her friends Nicole and Claire take her in, she gets a look at the existence she has always wanted.

Then the body of a young nanny, Sophie Blake, is found in a reservoir near a new housing development. The police call it an accident. Tash, who has learned that Sophie's life brushed against this exact circle, does not — and the further she pushes, the harder it is to tell whether she is chasing a story or being handled.

Katherine Faulkner alternates between Tash in the present and Sophie in the months before her death, building a domestic thriller about class, motherhood, and how expensive it is to belong.