Diary of a Void

£9.99

For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions…/Ms Shibata refuses to clear away the coffee and cigarette butts at work one day, because she's pregnant and can't bear the smell. The only thing is . . . Ms Shibata is not pregnant./Being a mother-to-be isn't easy. Ms Shibata has a nine-month ruse to keep up. Before long, it becomes all-absorbing, and with the help of towel-stuffed shirts and a diary app that tracks every stage of her 'pregnancy', the boundary between her lie and her life begins to dissolve./‘A subversive, surreal read that will strike a cord' Red Magazine/‘An insight into what it means to be a woman in our time... As a mode of resistance, Shibata's trick is perfect' Electric Literature