The good mother

Emma — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A reissue of the powerful and troubling debut sensation – which spent over six months at top of the New York Times bestseller list on its original publication thirty years agoRecently divorced, Anna Dunlap has two passionate attachments: her daughter, four-year-old Molly, and her lover, Leo, the man who makes her feel beautiful – and sexual – for the first time. Swept away by happiness and passion, Anna feels she has everything she’s ever wanted. Then come the shocking charges that would threaten her new love, her new family – that force her to prove she is a good mother.

Monogamy

Emma — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

‘Penetrating, intelligent, humane, funny too … Smart and powerfully alive’ Tessa Hadley‘Superb’ Daily Mail‘A poignant page-turner, delving deep into our most intimate relationships’ Evening StandardAnnie is the great love of Graham’s life. Here they are in late middle-age, the photographer and the bookseller, so mismatched and yet so well-matched. Theirs is a happy marriage of nearly thirty years – and even the happiest of marriages, Graham tells himself, have their secrets.Then the unthinkable happens, and suddenly Annie is alone, stumbling in the dark. How much can we ever know the people who love us?‘With what exquisite truth Sue Miller writes ? I was completely wrapped up in the beautifully, and often so tenderly observed rollercoaster of grief. An invaluably moving book’ Juliet Nicolson

Miller, Sue – The Bell Bookshop

The good mother

Monogamy