The Mothers The Mothers

The Mothers

the New York Times bestseller

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Publisher Description

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half.

The Mothers is a dazzling debut about young love, a big secret in a small community and the moments that haunt us most.


All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season.

It's the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance - and the subsequent cover-up - will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully manoeuvre and dogged by the constant, nagging question: what if they had chosen differently?

In entrancing, lyrical prose, THE MOTHERS asks whether a 'what if' can be more powerful than an experience itself.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2019
16 May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Dialogue
SIZE
1.4
MB

Customer Reviews

stella0x ,

Entrancing

Yet another in put downable read from this author

dasa3809 ,

A disappointing angle

It seems a very anti abortion book towards the end sadly.

Skid row 2000 ,

Incredible read

Put a weekend aside to read this book. Although I’m a British white 64 year old Grandma, In my head I now sound like a mother.

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