Prize Women

Opis

Prize Women. The gripping and unforgettable new novel from Caroline Lea, based on one of history's most shocking but largely untold scandals

'A highly original and inventive writer' Sunday Times

Toronto, Canada, 1926

Best friends Lily di Marco and Mae Thebault were once inseparable. They lived under the same roof and cared for each other's children. But with mouths to feeds and demanding husbands to keep happy, both women are forced into terrible decisions as the Great Depression tightens its grip.

When lawyer Charles Vance Miller's will promises a handsome sum of money to the woman who can produce the most babies in the next ten years, it is initially dismissed as a vanity project. But as t