The School for Good Mothers
Paperback Published on: 08/12/2022
Price: £9.99
Synopsis
Frida Liu had fed and changed her toddler Harriet. She had a work deadline - an article to finish, a job hanging by a thread, a file she'd left in the office. She would go get it. Harriet would be fine. But then the neighbours heard her crying.
Soon, the state will decide that Frida is not fit to care for her daughter. That she must be re-trained. That bad mothers everywhere will be re-educated. Will their mistakes cost them everything?
The School for Good Mothers is an explosive and thrilling novel about love, perfectionism and parenthood.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Cornerstone
- ISBN: 9781529158526
- Number of pages: 336
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
- Weight: 234g
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
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Excellent dystopian read
Very very good.
Dystopian, and a little flavour of The Handmaid's Tale - this is a story that will get you where it hurts and touch you deeply.
All paren... READ MORE
A thought provoking dystopian examination of the rights of mothers versus the rights of society
This book is a future dystopian novel (albeit set in almost the immediate present and not requiring much of a leap of imagination or significant extrapolat... READ MORE
A must-read, brilliant debut!
This was an awesome read! Very well thought out, a good story and some very emotional interactions... Ir’s an unusual story that I found gripping at times... READ MORE
It’s going to make you think!!
This dystopian novel follows Frida, who in a haze of tiredness pops out to the office and leaves her baby home alone. This decision lands Frida in the Stat... READ MORE
An absorbing and thought-provoking dystopian tale
At the end of her tether, single mother of a demanding toddler Frida Liu makes a terrible mistake leaving her alone at home for a few hours. She loses cust... READ MORE
just ok
I should have known since dystopia is not a fave genre of mine
A thought provoking dystopian examination of the rights of mothers versus the rights of society
This book is a future dystopian novel (albeit set in almost the immediate present and not requiring much of a leap of imagination or significant extrapolat... READ MORE
Fabulous! Thought provoking
I found it both disturbing & brilliant at the same time. It was a real page turner & I completed it in a day or two as I couldn't wait to see what happened... READ MORE
Original and riveting
Absolutely loved it! The Handmaid’s tale meets One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest! Set in the near future, a mother makes a terrible mistake and the state send... READ MORE
Slow but stick with it! Empowering story of the struggles of parenthood
To begin with I thought why would you leave your child but the story was very empowering in a Futuristic but believable sense and has also left the book op... READ MORE
Are you afraid of the surveillance state?
Are you afraid of the surviellance state? In Jessamine Chan's THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS a mother's worst nightmare comes true–Frida Liu is a struggling m... READ MORE
A troubling read
Frida Liu is a single mother struggling to work & bring up her daughter Harriet. After a few nights of next to no sleep with a needy toddler she decides to... READ MORE
Convicted of being a bad mother!
Having left her toddler daughter, Harriet, alone in the house for several hours, Frida Lui was reported to the authorities and convicted of being a bad mot... READ MORE
Superb read
What a great novel - original and so well written. I couldn’t wait to finish work to carry on reading it.
A harrowing tale, beautifully written
A truly harrowing tale, beautifully written. A thought-provoking horror story about a possible future for careless mothers. (And given the current politica... READ MORE