Prize Women

Based on the scandalous true story of The Great Stork Derby, Prize Women is a gripping and deeply moving novel about desperate choices and the two unforgettable women forced to make them.

** It's the 1920s, a time of unparalleled excess.

But for the rich to party, the poor must starve . . .**

Into the city arrives pregnant runaway Lily di Marco.

She has nothing – and expects nothing.

But soon she will find herself in a towering mansion just streets away.

Confidante to, and best friends with, its glamorous owner Mae Thebolt.

Until the competition.

A childless millionaire leaves his fortune to the woman

who will have the most babies over ten years.

Is it an eccentric contest?

Or a horrible joke played by a rich man on the poorest women of the city?

Either way, it will tear Lily and Mae’s friendship - and their lives - to pieces . . .