The Mother
By Yvvette Edwards
Publisher: Amistad
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Genre: Women’s
Fiction/Family-Life
Length: 256 Pages
ISBN: 978-0062440778
ASIN: B0141648E2
Buy Links: HarperCollins | Amazon |
About the book:
From the critically acclaimed
author of A Cupboard Full of Coats comes
a provocative novel of a mother enduring the loss of her child, illuminating
some of the most important and troubling issues of our time.
Marcia’s husband, Lloydie,
expresses his tender love for his wife each morning by preparing a cup of tea
and setting it by her bedside. This routine was part of the wonderful, secure
life they had built, complete with a brilliant and handsome sixteen-year-old
son, Ryan.
Then the unimaginable
happens, and in a single moment Marcia is stripped clean of everything she had
presumed was hers for keeps. Ryan, not the kind of boy to find himself on the
wrong end of a knife, is brutally murdered. \
Consumed by grief and rage,
she is forced to carry the weight of the family’s pain. She has to assume the
role of supporter for her inconsolable husband, who has distanced himself and
created a secret life. She must also bridle her dark feelings and endure
something no mother should ever have to experience: she must go to court alone
for the trial of her son’s killer, Tyson, another teenage boy. As the trial
takes apart her son’s life and reassembles it in front of strangers, Marcia,
always certain of Ryan’s virtues, finds her beliefs and assumptions challenged
as she learns more about her son’s death and of Tyson’s life.
The Mother is
a moving portrait of love, tragedy, and survival—and of the aftershocks from a
momentary act of cruel violence that transforms the lives of everyone it
touches.
About Yvette Edwards
Yvvette Edwards, the author of the highly praised A Cupboard
Full of Coats, has lived in London all her life. She resides in the East End
and is married with three daughters and a stepson. The Mother is her
second novel.
My full review will post later today - what I can tell you now is that this is a brilliantly written book about loss, grief, recovery and renewal.
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