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Those Other Women
Dec 25, 2025 8:05 AM

Author:Nicola Moriarty,Kirsty Gillmore

Those Other Women

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Those Other Women by Nicola Moriarty.

From the author of The Fifth Letter comes a controversial and darkly comic story about the frustrations of being a childless woman in the modern baby-obsessed world . . .

Poppy's world has been tipped sideways: the husband who never wanted children has betrayed her with her broody best friend.

At least Annalise is on her side. Her new friend is determined to celebrate their freedom from kids, so together they create a Facebook group to meet up with like-minded women, and perhaps vent just a little about smug mummies' privileges at work.

Meanwhile Frankie would love a night out, away from her darlings - she's not had one this decade and she's heartily sick of being judged by women at the office and stay-at-home mums.

Then Poppy and Annalise's group takes off and frustrated members start confronting mums like Frankie in the real world. Cafés become battlegrounds, playgrounds become warzones and offices have never been so divided.

A rivalry that was once harmless fun is spiralling out of control.

Because one of their members is a wolf in sheep's clothing. And she has an agenda of her own . . .

Reviews

I devoured it, loved it and totally escaped into it. Fun and topical

—— Marian Keyes

Makes entertaining play of the rivalry between mums and non-mums

—— Telegraph

A firecracker of a novel

—— Liane Moriarty

A darkly droll page-turner

—— Publishers Weekly

Super addictive, cleverly plotted and ridiculously relatable, Those Other Women by Nicola Moriarty is yet another captivating read from the wildly talented Moriarty family. I raced through this book in a single sitting and was genuinely upset when I had to part ways with the characters in the end. This is definitely one of those books where the characters begin to feel like your new best friends within the first few chapters

—— Booktopia

This novel shows the same sharp eye for neat plotting that Nicola Moriarty revealed in her last novel, The Fifth Letter. Moriarty is fair-minded about this conflict, often manages to be funny about it, and deftly employs the features and uses of Facebook to kick along the plot

—— Sydney Morning Herald

Nicola Moriarty instinctively knows what we want to read and gives it to us on a platter - juicy, topical, honestly raw and full of twists and turns that we never see coming, Those Other Women does everything right

—— Tess Woods

Moriarty trains a spotlight on the pitfalls of social media and how quickly rumour is presented as fact

—— Courier Mail

Super addictive, cleverly plotted and ridiculously relatable . . . the characters begin to feel like your new best friends

—— 9 Honey

A darkly droll page-turner . . . a tasty divertissement

—— Publishers Weekly

Praise for Nicola Moriarty

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The premise and its execution will grab readers and refuse to let go. An author to watch

—— Booklist

With secrets and intrigue, this is a compulsive read

—— Sun on Sunday

Entertaining

—— Sunday Mirror

A darkly humorous story about friendship

—— Best

Intrigue, hatred and accusations - phew, it kept me guessing to the end

—— Sun

The textures of the world Wolitzer describes feel satisfyingly right… Wolitzer holds attention with her warm grasp of character and careful, probing working out of personality under the forces of time and trauma’

—— Sarah Ditum , New Statesman

Meg Wolitzer bores into the barbed tangles of contemporary feminism with disarming charm… Captures the ambition and angst of growing up with warmth and wisdom in a book that’s at once searingly intelligent and gloriously light.

—— Lucy Brooks , CultureWhisper

Meg Wolitzer's tale of feminism's generational differences is much richer than mere polemical tract

—— Lucy Scholes , Independent

An effortless read

—— Stylist

Bustling, large-hearted... The Female Persuasion discusses timely issues of feminism...but does so through fully realised characters

—— Refinery29

it deftly interweaves the political with the personal... clear and smart

—— Emma Jacobs , Financial Times

[Woltizer is] interested in the complexities of being female… This is an unashamedly traditional novel of ideas, not afraid to boldly inhabit the moment we live in

—— Claire Allfree , Daily Telegraph

A significant contribution to Wolitzer’s body of work

—— Alex Clark , Guardian

Wolitzer’s prose is direct and engaging… her characters feel alive and individual

—— Josie Mitchell , Literary Review

My favourite book of the year… Wolitzer deserves more recognition: she is as talented a storyteller as Donna Tartt, as funny as Jonathan Franzen, but she has her own distinct brilliance

—— Rebecca Rose , Financial Times, **Books of the Year**

Wolitzer is an empathy delivery system

—— Financial Times, **FT Readers' Books of the Year**

The end will leave you simmering with impotent rage, which sounds about right for 2018

—— Lucy Hunter Johnston , Evening Standard, **Books of the Year**

There’s lots to enjoy here – the plot is pacy and you’ll come to care and deeply invest in these characters through Wolitzer’s brilliantly sharp prose

—— Ella Walker , Herald Scotland

- Meg Wolitzer captures the zeitgeist like no one else

—— Elle

[W]arm and witty, and necessary… With affection and generosity, Wolitzer exposes the limits of power

—— Eva Wiseman , Observer
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