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Mother Island
Tense and powerful, this is a novel about love and family secrets. Two cousins meet again after many years and one becomes the nanny for the other. I reall... READ MORE
Mother Island
Tense and powerful, this is a novel about love and family secrets. Two cousins meet again after many years and one becomes the nanny for the other. I reall... READ MORE
Synopsis
This is the story of two women, Nula and Maggie, joined by old family history and love for the same little boy.
Nula, struggling with her new baby and feeling alone in her marriage, employs her cousin Maggie as a nanny when she returns to work. But it's not long before Nula finds herself theatened by Maggie's close bond with her son, Samuel.
Nula's outwardly perfect house crackles with unspoken jealousies and rivalry until Maggie's intense love for Samuel tips into obsession and she decides her only option is to abduct the child. As Maggie makes her desperate bid for safety, the women's shared past of trauma and loss comes to the fore once more.
WINNER OF THE JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2015.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9780099555261
- Number of pages: 320
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
- Weight: 227g
- Languages: English