Hello Baby

In Hello Baby by Kim Eui-kyung, six women in Seoul find friendship and friction in a group chat built around IVF, fertility and the unnerving wait for a life to begin. This sharp, intimate novel draws you in with its candid look at motherhood and the quiet negotiations women make in bodies, marriages and friendships.

After meeting at the upmarket Baby Angel Hospital, the women—different in age, jobs and money—keep each other afloat with late-night messages, gallows humour and hard-earned honesty. When Jeong-hyo, 46, abruptly stops treatment and disappears from the chat, the group’s fragile sense of momentum shifts. A year later, she reappears with astonishing news: she’s had a baby.

Perfect for readers of contemporary Korean fiction, feminist fiction and book club fiction that explores womanhood without sentimentality.

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