The Good Mother

The Good Mother
Sue Miller
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 336pg
26 Jan 2023 UK
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9781526654953
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A reissue of the powerful and troubling debut sensation - which spent over six months at top of the New York Times bestseller list on its original publication thirty years agoRecently divorced, Anna Dunlap has two passionate attachments: her daughter, four-year-old Molly, and her lover, Leo, the man who makes her feel beautiful - and sexual - for the first time. Swept away by happiness and passion, Anna feels she has everything she' s ever wanted. Then come the shocking charges that would threaten her new love, her new family - that force her to prove she is a good mother.
Thanks to Sue Miller' s gift for precise psychological detail, her sure sense of narrative and her simple compassion for ordinary lives, this powerful novel proves as subtle as it is dramatic, as durable - in its emotional afterlife - as it is instantly readable -- MICHIKO KAKUTANI * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * "This powerful novel proves as subtle as it is dramatic, as durable-in its emotional afterlife-as it is instantly readable. " * New York Times * A remarkable accomplishment * Chicago Tribune * Praise for Monogamy: One of the most emotionally truthful novels I have ever read * Daisy Buchanan * Almost every line glows with even-handed wisdom - a superb novel, beautifully put together * Daily Mail * An invaluably moving book * Juliet Nicholson * One to read first for the story and then to re-read at leisure and marvel at how real these people feel * Erin Kelly * Penetrating, intelligent, humane, funny too . . . Smart and powerfully alive * Tessa Hadley * An underrated master of US fiction . . . Miller asks big questions about marriage and whether it' s worth the sacrifices involved. And these fascinating insights are wrapped up in a page-turning plot, too * Sunday Express * A poignant page-turner, delving deep into our most intimate relationships * Evening Standard * Miller is concerned with deeper mysteries of human motivation . A writer with an uncanny compass for the contrary * Sunday Telegraph * Miller' s thoughtful, searching prose fills in all the background details, and her vivid characters are utterly believable. Brilliant * The Times * An eloquent chronicler of the complexities of ordinary relationships, whose informal language belies the depths of her insights . Miller nails the contradictory emotions and desires that are responsible for people so often bypassing the seemingly easy road to happiness * Independent * Miller writes with grace and poise, crafting an examination of love and loss that is both understated and emotionally charged * Guardian * Miller writes with tremendous subtlety and perception * Daily Mail *
Sue Miller was born in Chicago in 1943. She is the bestselling author of ten previous novels including The Good Mother, The Distinguished Guest, the Oprah Book Club selection While I Was Gone, Lost in the Forest, the Richard & Judy choice The Senator' s Wife, The Lake Shore Limited, The Arsonist and the acclaimed memoir The Story of My Father. Her books have been published in 22 countries and she has been awarded a Guggenheim and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. Sue Miller lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. suemillerofficial. com

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