Seed is raw, hilarious and so lifelike I kept forgetting I wasn't reading about real people. I felt every frustration, every high and every low as if these women were my friends. A heartfelt, funny, unforgettable read. I loved it. - Rachael Johns
www.nzbooklovers.co.nz interview with Elisabeth Easther extract from the interview;
"Tell us a little about your novel....Seed is about the mysterious business of making babies. How unfair it is that some women who dearly want to fall pregnant can struggle, and those who don’t want to reproduce can more easily find themselves in the family way. It’s about the birds and the bees and the bumps in our roads - and while there are serious themes at its core, it’s also funny, and a little bit rude. You have been warned!"
Four friends, two pregnancies and the mother of all awkward situations...
Hillary and her partner are eager for a baby, their sex life dictated by the automated texts from their fertility agency, MotherWorld.
Her best friend Maggie is a single mother living her best life, enjoying a healthy relationship with her ex, and a healthy appetite on the dating apps. With her youngest now at school, Shelley is returning to the office, hoping to prove her value at the gold-star advertising agency she works for.
Meanwhile, midwife Virginia has made a career of helping other people have babies, but is suddenly yearning for one of her own. With no partner in sight, she cooks up an unhinged plan...
Hilarious and wise, this new novel from the publishers of Marian Keyes and Dolly Alderton asks the question- how far would you go to get a life?
Elisabeth Easther has been a book critic in New Zealand and in the UK since 1993 when she started reviewing books on National Radio with Kim Hill. She later became the books editor of Cleo Magazine, for many years was a regular contributor to the books page of Time Out in London and still reviews today on radio and in print. Elisabeth is also a journalist, focusing mainly on travel, arts, literature and culture, contributing to magazines and newspapers locally and around the world.
Her fiction work includes a number of serials and stand-alone stories for Radio NZ National as well as several plays, including the award winning Seed, which was awarded the Adam NZ Play Award in 2014. Elisabeth is also an actress, voice artist, and a narrator of talking books at The Royal NZ Foundation for the Blind. In addition, she has presented the television series Islands of the Gulf, following in the footsteps of her mother Shirley Maddock's acclaimed television series and book of the same name.
Paperback, 416 pages
H: 233mm W: 155mm Spine: 31mm
Weight: 515 grams