Motherthing

Motherthing
Ainslie Hogarth
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h215 x 140mm - 288pg
6 Oct 2022 UK
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9781838957780
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Abby Lamb has done it. She' s found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph' s mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She' s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, who has a complicated understanding of motherhood given the way her own, now-estranged, mother raised her. When Laura takes her own life, her ghost starts to haunt Abby and Ralph in very different ways. Ralph is plunged into depression, and Abby is being terrorized by a force intent on taking everything she loves away from her. With everything on the line, Abby must make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prove her adoration to Ralph and break Laura' s hold on the family for good.
Filled with sharp, crackling sentences, which bend variously sinister, humorous and sad, Ainslie Hogarth' s new novel is a stunner. Like Mona Awad' s Bunny or Ottessa Moshfegh' s Eileen,Motherthing is a fabulous, frightening story built from fine, fine prose * Laird Hunt, author of the National Book Award finalist, Zorrie * This novel is bursting with smart, provocative, heart-breaking things to say about the nature of grief and its ability to take up just as much - if not more - physical space than the actual person lost. Motherthing is gory and irreverent and totally irresistible * Courtney Maum, author of Touch *
Ainslie Hogarth has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland and has published two YA horror novels, in the U. S. with Flux Books and France in with Editions Milan. The Lonely is about a girl who is crushed by a rock and bleeds to death all day long, and The Boy Meets Girl Massacre (Annotated) is about a girl who may or may not have murdered all of her friends with a pick-axe. Her short fiction has been published in Hazlitt, Black Static, and elsewhere.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781838957780
Published: 6 Oct 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 215mm
Width: 140mm
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 325g
Pages: 288

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