Compensation

‘A compelling, unusual and excellent novel, beautifully balancing ambiguity and warmth’ SARAH MOSS

‘Tender, troubling and stunningly observed’ REBECCA PERRY

‘Daring, hilarious and profound . Glorious’ LEILA MOTTLEY

Georges is dead. Charlottes live-at-home, darling son took a blow to his head while out drinking, and she had to find him, still wearing last nights clothes, lying on top of his sheets. He was only thirty-four.

Left with only her philanderer, porn-addicted husband Erik for company, Charlotte desperately casts around for a way any way through her immeasurable grief.

Erik, a surgeon, will remove their dead sons sperm, and a surrogate will bring his baby into the world. The couple turn to Lena, their undocumented cleaner who has big dreams of her own. And as the once-established power dynamics begin to shift between the trio, desperation and guilt will push all three to their limits