A Good Enough Mother UK

✍ Scribed by Bev Thomas

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 175 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0571348386

✦ Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FIRST BOOK AWARD

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The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

'Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute, in A Good Enough Mother Bev Thomas combines all the tension of a thriller with the emotional resonance of a powerful family drama.' (Paula Hawkins , bestselling author of The Girl on the Train)

Dr Ruth Hartland rises to difficult tasks. She is the director of a highly respected trauma therapy unit. She is confident, capable and excellent at her job. Today she is preoccupied by her son Tom's disappearance.

So when a new patient arrives at the unit - a young man who looks shockingly like Tom - she is floored.

As a therapist, Ruth knows exactly what she should do in the best interests of her client, but as a mother she makes a very different choice - a decision that will have profound consequences.

**A gripping and deeply intelligent...