A gripping story about race, money and motherhood that asks: what would you sacrifice for a new life?
'A firecracker of a novel'
Madeline Miller
'Intelligent, thought-provoking, slyly satirical'
Sunday Times
'About everything a book should be about: race and class, power and inequality - and it's dark and funny'
Joanna Cannon
'An unsettling, unputdownable read'
Elle
'Ramos has crafted a real page-turner' The Times
Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks - a luxury retreat transforming the fertility industry. There, women get the very best of everything: organic meals, fitness trainers, daily massages and big money. Provided they dedicate themselves to producing the perfect baby. For someone else.
Jane is a young immigrant in search of a better future. Stuck living in a cramped dorm with her baby daughter and her shrewd aunt Ate, she sees an unmissable chance to change her life. But at what cost?
Chosen as a book of the summer by the Guardian, Telegraph, Evening Standard and Cosmopolitan
Industry Reviews
“This topical, provocative debut anatomises class, race and the American dream”
Guardian
“An intelligent, thought-provoking, slyly satirical novel with thrillerish elements, it is also affectingly illuminating about life for an expatriate service class”
Sunday Times
“If you only read a single debut this year, make it The Farm”
Vogue, Must-Reads
“It's so now … Ramos has crafted a real page-turner that combines all the hottest issues of the day: inequality, race, and women's battle to reclaim their bodies from commodification by big business, with the eternal questions of how much we can sacrifice before losing ourselves completely”
Melissa Katsoulis, The Times
