I really enjoyed this book, I was captivated right from the start and I couldnt stop reading. Well written with good development of characters and a good plotline that was both heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measures, I didnt expect this book to be so emotive but it will stay with me for a while.

Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, it was full of humour but also heartbreaking especially towards the end. I will definitely be recommending.

Equal parts heartwarming and heartbreaking, Fight Night follows three generations of women living together. This is my first Miriam Toews book. I found it took a little while to get into the narrative voice but then it became a fairly easy read.

This is the second Miriam Toews I have read, after her stunning WOMEN TALKING. Told from the perspective of young Swiv, we experience her life as a child and her interactions with her pregnant mother and grandmother. Toews absolutely nails Swiv's precocious yet childlike tone and the last few pages were an adventurous delight. The three women are impeccably drawn by Toews and their relationship to one another is completely believable. It made me reflect on my own relationship with my grandmother in particular.

Thanks to NetGalley, Miriam Toews and Faber and Faber for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I adore Miriam Toews so am super grateful I got a chance to read this. Fight Night is about three generations of women in a family - a young girl, her pregnant mother and her elderly grandmother. It's funny, sad, tragic, joyful and the characters stay with you long after you have finished it.