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 . . .