Another Mother's Son
$25.72
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2016
Summary
An unsettling, brilliant novel of family life from Orange-Prize-longlisted Janet Davey.
“We’re lucky to have such an intelligent chronicler of our present.” - Tessa Hadley on Janet Davey.
Lorna Parry lives with her three sons, each one lurching into adulthood. Lorna struggles in the claustrophobic loneliness of her home; she’s still angry at her ex-husband, uncomfortable around her father’s new girlfriend, and finds it difficult to talk to her sons. Life seems precariously bal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784701123 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784701122 |
| Author: | Janet Davey |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
“This quietly menacing novel succeeds in being many things, among them a cautionary tale of parenting in the age of social media.” –Hephzibah Anderson, Mail on Sunday
Funny, shrewd and desolating- a novel that makes you look and think twice – Kate Kellaway * Observer Books of the Year *
Ambitious, clever… By the end of this book you feel profoundly disturbed and enlightened * Evening Standard *
Quietly menacing * Mail on Sunday *
We’re lucky to have such an intelligent chronicler of our present * Tessa Hadley *
A well-written, very well-observed and quietly effective portrayal of the tribulations of middle age – Harry Ritchie * Daily Mail *
About The Author
Janet Davey
Janet Davey was born in 1953. She is the author of English Correspondence, which was longlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize, First Aid, The Taxi Queue and By Battersea Bridge.
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