Coby Sullivan

Louise Stephens has spent her career telling the stories of strong women. A journalist, a feminist, fiercely independent — she expects motherhood to come as naturally as everything else has. It doesn't. After a traumatic birth, sleep-starved and slipping from herself, she finds herself standing at a clifftop with her baby in her arms, thinking the unthinkable.

Her husband, Thomas, holds everything together — the night feeds, the housework, her pain — and never once complains. As Louise begins the slow work of finding her way back, no one thinks to ask how the strong one is coping.

For readers of Me Before You and Big Little Lies, Milk Fever is an unflinching novel about new motherhood, silent suffering, and the cost of holding it all together.