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ANNA HOPE studied at Oxford University and RADA. She is the internationally prizewinning and bestselling author of Wake and The Ballroom. Her contemporary fiction debut, Expectation, explores themes of love, lust, motherhood, and feminism, while asking the greater question of what defines a generation. She lives in Sussex with her husband and young daughter.
I tore through EXPECTATION at the weekend. Exceptional gorgeously written and reads like a love letter to London. I highly recommend it * STACEY HALLS, bestselling author of THE FAMILIARS * I loved it. Raw, honest, unputdownable. * TAMMY COHEN * A generation-defining book, honest and relatable on motherhood, ambition and sex. Like NORMAL PEOPLE with female friendship under the microscope * ERIN KELLY, bestselling author of HE SAID/SHE SAID * Succulent, tender and honest, EXPECTATION is about the relationships between women: love, loss, triumph and betrayal. It was one of those books that knowingly flirted, then seduced me and then utterly ravished me * TOR UDALL * Few novels leave me genuinely breathless with their brilliance. EXPECTATION is one of them. This book is beautiful. I am in AWE * HANNAH BECKERMAN * Anna Hope has a way of getting inside difficult and painful moments, turning them inside out. I felt I knew these women as my own friends. Taut, electric, complex, funny. * RACHEL JOYCE bestselling author of THE UNEXPECTED PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY * Jaw-droppingly good * SARRA MANNING * EDITOR'S CHOICE: I enjoyed this contemporary novel about the gulf between the expectation of how life will turn out and the reality... [it] taps into the current conversation about finding fulfilment and living a meaningful life. -- Alice O'Keeffe * The Bookseller * BEST BOOKS FOR JULY: Expectation has defied all my expectations and completely redefined the friendship novel. Each of the characters resonated with me and I'm in awe of the way Anna Hope captures what it means to be a woman, right here, right now, with all the precision of a surgeon's knife. * Red Magazine Book of the Year * Hope's writing is sublime and her characters so well fleshed out they will feel like friends at the end * Good Housekeeping Book of the Year * Absolutely encapsulates what it means to be a young woman today, and beyond * Grazia Magazine * The real joy of this novel - while exploring just what second wave feminism has done for this generation of women ( you've had everything... we changed the world for you. For our daughters. And what have you done with it? ) - is in it's writing; the dialogue and the honesty behind these characters who are doing their best, who are trying to live up to the fictional counterparts that they themselves have created... It's the perfect summer reading * STYLIST MAGAZINE * A Sally Rooney-esque evocative examination of female friendship * BEST SUMMER READS, i-newspaper * Brilliant portrayal of long-term female friendships . . . I was gripped. * Prima * Thoughtful, beautifully written, honest. A sensual book. I URGE YOU TO READ IT * MARIAN KEYES * Will resonate with approximately 99 % of all women * RED magazine summer pick * I loved it . . . 10 out of 10! * BRYONY GORDON * One of the most intensely readable novels I've encountered this year * METRO * A brilliant exploration of friendship, feminism and thwarted ambition * Pandora Sykes * Profoundly intelligent and humane. Deserves to feature on many a prize shortlist * Guardian *
