My first novel for adults is out now from Granta Books in the UK and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US!

For a long time, she and her husband have their dog and she almost certainly doesn’t want to have a child. But then the dog dies and she learns she can’t have a child even if she wanted to, and she begins to think about horses again. When she hears about a mare who needs looking after part-time, it sounds like an ideal arrangement. Something to care for two days a week, without getting in too deep. But as she brushes and feeds and rides the horse, affection grows into obsession and she must confront what it means to love a being who did not come from her body and who does not belong to her.

Emily Haworth-Booth’s award-winning debut novel is a bold and beautiful exploration of contemporary (non)motherhood and the surprising ways in which desire can enthral us and set us free.

Buy Mare at https://granta.com/products/mare/

Incredible, wonderfully weird and thought-provoking. I loved its take on gender and physicality, and our proximity to the natural world
– Natasha Onwuemezi

Captivating and unique. A novel I had no idea I was yearning for until I started to read it. Mare is already the winner of a significant prize and deserves to become a classic
– Sophie Hannah

Immersive, tender, nuanced and radically attentive to the strangeness and wonder of human love – for each other, for a mouse, for a horse. A blissful read
– Fiona Benson