- Published: 04/04/2013
- ISBN: 9781847087270
- 129x20mm
- 288 pages
In A Country Of Mothers
A.M. Homes
For Claire Roth, an established psychotherapist with an adoring husband and children, her new patient – Jody Goodman, a witty and attractive young filmmaker – is a welcome diversion from her predictable life. Jody, successful, yet uncertain, is disarmed by Claire’s interest and approval. Gradually, the boundaries between friendship and family, between love and compulsion, start to blur – especially when one of them starts to believe fanatically that some things simply cannot be coincidences, and that what they share, in fact, is the deepest bond of all. In a Country of Mothers is a transfixing psychological thriller, and with it A.M. Homes forces us to confront our own judgements about sanity, danger and desire.
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Very few writers push the envelope with such style and confidence
Mark Haddon
Irresistibly pulls the reader into a vortex of damaged faith. Fiercely witty, frenetically paced, and seriously engaged with significant issues
Maddison Smartt Bell
The imagination that shapes A.M. Homes's fiction is exhilaratingly perverse
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