Sarah Harman talks to Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Sarah Harman’s debut novel won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize in 2023. Harman is a recovering journalist with over a decade of experience reporting on major breaking news around the world. She discusses her course change into fiction with Kiran Millwood-Hargrave, award-winning author of The Girl of Ink & Stars and Leila and the Blue Fox.

All the Other Mothers Hate Me is a witty novel about fitting in and starting over. Florence knows all about failure. After a dismal end to her 2000s girlband career, she’s moping around West London, single, broke and unfulfilled. The only things she’s proud of are her increasingly elaborate nail art choices – and her ten-year-old son, Dylan. But when Alfie, Dylan’s bitter class rival and the child heir to a frozen foods empire, mysteriously vanishes on a school trip, Dylan becomes a prime suspect, and Florence has to get her act together…