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Another Mother's Son

Another Mother's Son

by JanetDavey (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

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Synopsis

`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 balanced. Then a shocking event occurs at the boys' school and her world threatens to implode.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04 Aug 2016
ISBN 10: 1784701122
ISBN 13: 9781784701123
Book Overview: An unsettling, brilliant novel of family life from Orange-Prize-longlisted Janet Davey

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
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.