Thrown, Sara Cox
Thrown, Sara Cox
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

Thrown
The glorious feel-good Sunday Times Bestseller of love, friendship and pottery

Author: Sara Cox

Narrator: Sara Cox

Unabridged: 8 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/12/2022

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

The wise and gloriously big-hearted debut novel from the much-loved broadcaster, Sara Cox

Becky: a single mum who prides herself on her independence. She knows from painful experience that men are trouble.
Louise: a loving husband, gorgeous kids. She ought to feel more grateful.
Jameela: all she's ever done is work hard, and try her best. Why won't life give her the one thing she really wants?
Sheila: the nest is empty, there's a lonely little feeling in her tummy and her husband seems so distracted.

The inhabitants of the Inventor's Housing Estate keep themselves to themselves. There are the friendly 'Hellos' when commutes coincide and the odd cheeky eye roll when the wine bottles clank in number 7's wheelie bin, but it's not exactly Ramsay Street.

The dilapidated community centre is no longer the beating heart of the estate that Becky remembers from her childhood. So the new pottery class she's helped set up feels like a fresh start. And not just for her.

The assorted neighbours come together to try out a new skill, under the watchful eye of their charismatic teacher, Sasha. And as the soft unremarkable lumps of clay are hesitantly, lovingly moulded into delicate vases and majestic pots, so too are the lives of four women. Concealed passions and heartaches are uncovered, relationships shattered and formed, and the possibility for transformation is revealed.

(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Sara Cox

Sara Cox is known and loved by millions of BBC Radio 2 listeners, having presented her teatime show for seven years and recently moving over to present the iconic Radio 2 Breakfast Show. She developed a passion for broadcasting on BBC Radio 1, hosting the Breakfast Show there for four years and reaching eight million listeners. She recently won The Best Audio Presenter at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.On TV, Sara hosted the popular weekly book programme Between The Covers on BBC Two and regularly co-hosted BBC Two's Morning Live. Other TV work includes The Great Pottery Throwdown, Back In Time for Tea and Love In The Countryside. She is currently filming the second series of The Marvellous Miniature Workshop for BBC One.Sara has written columns for The Mirror and The Guardian. Her memoir Till The Cows Come Home was a Sunday Times bestseller, as were her previous novels Thrown and Way Back.In 2025 Sara raised £11.7 million for Children In Need after running five ultra marathons in five days on her Great Northern Marathon Challenge.Sara lives with her family in North London and stays in touch with her farming background by having too many pets and riding her horse Nelly.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vivienne on August 08, 2022

I think this book was pretty much what I expected from Sara Cox - light hearted, humorous (but not lol) and easy to whizz through. However, it was also vacuous. The characters were boring and the plot predictable and although I’m sure some will enjoy the simple escapism and sweet story of women beco......more

Goodreads review by Louise on May 01, 2022

3.5 stars rounded up Becky: a single mum who prides herself on her independence. She knows from painful experience that men are trouble. Louise: a loving husband, gorgeous kids. She ought to feel more grateful. Jameela: All she's ever done is work hard, and try her best. Why won't life give her the on......more

Goodreads review by Caitlin on October 21, 2022

Really wanted to love this because I admire Sara Cox, she’s so funny and smart, but god those first few chapters were not well written. I didn’t think I’d keep reading. Saying that, it improved, and in parts I was truly sucked into the story, but I kept being jolted out of it again by things like ex......more

Goodreads review by Adrian on May 09, 2022

Thrown centres around 4 women in a small village in England who join a pottery class in their local community centre and form bonds as their past and problems come to light. Told from alternate perspectives of the characters, this one, despite some heavy subject matter in parts, is a very light and......more

Goodreads review by Alayne on April 27, 2022

This was a superb debut novel by Sara Cox, I really enjoyed it. The characters were so interesting and the outcome was brilliant. I do hope she writes more as I’m very interested in reading more by her. My thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book in retu......more