Harriet and Fletcher Tuke have worked hard to raise their children well. Daniel, the eldest son, has always accepted that his birth father died soon after he was born, and Fletcher has raised Daniel as his own. But as Daniel comes of age and begins to fall in love with childhood friend Beatrice Hart
Another Mother's Son
β Scribed by Davey, Janet
- Book ID
- 108956737
- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 149 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ 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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