Nuclear Family

KATE DAVIES is a novelist, screenwriter and writer of children’s books. Her first novel, In at the Deep End, won the Polari Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. She lives in East London with her wife and son.

‘Davies writes with a glorious sureness of touch and impeccable comic timing. Nuclear Family is funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real’ SARAH WATERS'Rambunctiously funny… Davies' confident storytelling blasts open some seriously sensitive subject matter' THE TIMES, Book of the Year'An amazing and funny read about what family really means. Fabulous!' PRIMA, Book of the Year'A welcome return from one of the freshest voices in fiction. In Nuclear Family Kate Davies turns her acute eye on family, identity and belonging, not to mention the mechanics of insemination. I can’t think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLY'A gripping drama of DNA and desire… an absolute treat' i Paper'Deftly wrought' DAILY MAIL‘A funny, moving novel… packed with explosive emotion and warmed by empathetic understanding’ MAIL ON SUNDAY'An engrossing story of ruptured family dynamics, raw and unflinching, painful and hilarious – a complex reflection on love, identity and what makes a family a family' JOANNA GLEN‘Filled with wisdom about love, building a family and what makes us who we are, it’s also very, very funny’ STYLIST'A very modern and moving comedy of manners' RED'Juggles big emotions and big laughs with a healthy dose of compassion' THE TIMES'‘Davies’s 2019 debut In at the Deep End was one of the funniest novels of that year. This follow up, about what happens when a DNA testing kit ends up blowing a family apart, is just as good a comedy of manners' i NEWS‘I loved this funny, thoughtful book’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘Confront[s] sensitive subjects with wit and tenderness… an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of family’ The Bookseller, BOOK OF THE MONTH'Enjoyable and though-provoking' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Heartwarming' WOMAN'S OWN'Thought-provoking…an enjoyable read’ BELFAST TELEGRAPH'Moving and hilarious' BIG ISSUE, Top 5 New Queer Books