Call Me Mummy

Call Me Mummy
Tina Baker
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Trade Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 384pg
25 Feb 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781788165235
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' Brilliantly written and emotionally compulsive' - HARRIET TYCE' A powerful and thought-provoking page turner' - KATERINA DIAMOND' Disturbing and distinctive, this is a book I couldn' t put down' - AMANDA JENNINGSTHIS MOTHER' S DAY YOU WILL CALL HER MUMMYGlamorous, beautiful Mummy has everything a woman could want. Except for a daughter of her very own. So when she sees Kim - heavily pregnant, glued to her phone and ignoring her eldest child in a busy shop - she does what anyone would do. She takes her. But foul-mouthed little Tonya is not the daughter that Mummy was hoping for. As Tonya fiercely resists Mummy' s attempts to make her into the perfect child, Kim is demonised by the media as a ' scummy mummy' , who deserves to have her other children taken too. Haunted by memories of her own childhood and refusing to play by the media' s rules, Kim begins to spiral, turning on those who love her. Though they are worlds apart, Mummy and Kim have more in common than they could possibly imagine. But it is five-year-old Tonya who is caught in the middle. . . CALL ME MUMMY. IT' LL BE BETTER IF YOU DO.
I loved [this] book. It' s very dark, heartbreaking and totally absorbing -- Lorraine Kelly It' s brilliant. I had to read the last half of it all in one go as I couldn' t put it down -- Eddie Mair, LBC Radio Horrifying and beautiful in equal measure, the characters truly lifelike in their all too human complexities. Brilliantly written and emotionally compulsive. I loved it -- Harriet Tyce, author * Blood Orange * A powerful and thought-provoking page turner. The definition of unputdownable -- Katerina Diamond, author * The Heatwave * Psychologically twisty and utterly gripping - a novel to make you question the way things appear at first sight -- Lisa Hall, author of The Perfect Couple I rattled through Call Me Mummy, biting my nails the entire time. Tense and gripping, these characters will stay with me for a long time -- Alice Clark-Platts author * The Flower Girls * A powerful, dark and bleak novel with broken characters that really got under my skin. Absorbing, gritty and very real -- Mel Sherratt, author of Tick Tock Disturbing, distinctive, and peppered with black humour, this is a book I couldn' t put down. If you like your fiction dark and compelling, you' ll love Call Me Mummy -- Amanda Jennings, author of The Storm Utterly absorbing - I loved everything about this book, but especially the deeply flawed, brilliantly drawn protagonists. Such an imaginative premise and so brilliantly done -- Catherine Cooper, author of The Chalet Another must-read is Call Me Mummy by Tina Baker, a darkly comic thriller about two women who are worlds apart - until one steals the other one' s child * Waitrose Magazine * Superb. What a dark, troubling and beautifully written book. And it' s threaded with a strand of bleak uncompromising humour which catches the reader off guard at the most unexpected moments. Read it! -- Kate Griffin, author of Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders Bleak but totally compelling and peppered with dark humour. Tense, twisted and totally unputdownable. Shocking and brilliant -- SJI Holliday, author of Violet A deliciously dark, emotionally truthful, sucker punch of a novel. Creepy, twisty and all too credible. A stunning debut -- Paul Burston, author of The Closer I Get An astonishing debut. Beautifully written, but also raw and uncompromising, this is a gut-punch of a novel -- David Jackson, author of The Resident A peerlessly original thriller, pushing at the sore edges of motherhood and childlessness. I read it with my free hand over my mouth and my heart in knots. Spectacular -- Kate Simants, author of Lock Me In From the first to the last page I was hooked. The writing is flawless, and the characters are so realistically portrayed I felt I knew both women. I absolutely loved it -- Louise Mullins, author of I Know You Brilliant. A thriller so tense you dare not look away until the final page -- Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal I love these kinds of thrillers that touch on mental health, dark deep secrets and harrowing, tormented characters. A fast-paced thrilling read [with] a spectacular ending -- J. A. Andrews, author of You Let Him In Utterly exceptional. Haunting, harrowing and very dark -- Victoria Selman, author of Snakes and Ladders
Tina was brought up in a caravan after her mother, a fairground traveller, fell pregnant by a window cleaner. After leaving the bright lights of Coalville, she came to London and worked as a journalist and broadcaster for thirty years. She' s probably best known as a television critic for the BBC and GMTV. Call Me Mummy is Tina' s first novel, partly inspired by her own unsuccessful attempts to have a child. Despite the grief and disappointment of that, she hasn' t stolen one. So far.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781788165235
Published: 25 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 499g
Pages: 384

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