'A Perfect Mother is a highly ambitious novel of ideas and a powerfully involving drama.' Derek Johns, author of Ariel: a literary life of Jan Morris
During a visit to Trieste in Northern Italy to research his long lost great-grandfather, Jacob meets Charlotte and Jane, and the three are forced to confront their individual and shared histories. Their sense of themselves is challenged and they must piece together a future none of them saw coming.
A Perfect Mother asks big questions: What do we inherit from the broken histories of our parents and our grandparents and how does this shape our own sense of identity? Can we ever escape the past? Are stories, the ones we are told and the ones we tell, integral to how we know each other and how we love? What does it mean to be a good parent, let alone the perfect mother?
A bracing, hypnotic story of mid-life crisis about the complexities of love, relationship and legacy.
- ISBN13 9780995647848
- Publish Date 1 September 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 January 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Hikari Press
- Format Hardcover
- Language English