Natasha Harding of The Sun tweets that The Mother is her “Book of the year so far”. Yvvette Edwards‘ novel is “a powerful book that will cut you to the…… quick” she says in her review today.

The Press Association have also published a fabulous review of the novel:

“a wonderfully vivid and arresting portrait of a mother facing up to the ultimate horror and doing so with bravery and dignity” Yorkshire Post

The Mother was published by Macmillan, Mantle imprint, yesterday.

Buy the novel here

A dark, bold literary novel about two estranged brothers brought back into each other’s lives by their father’s disappearance – and the emotional, moral and physical reckoning that follows.

Two estranged brothers emerge from long periods of isolation when their father goes missing. Alike in appearance but sharply divided by experience, the brothers are forced into proximity as they search for the elderly man across Gran Canaria.

Nick is a priest, a man shaped by a violent criminal past and sincere religious conversion, while Gary is a former basketball player whose heightened energy and volatility signal a manic episode brought on by bipolar disorder.

As they navigate seedy bars, churches, beaches and volcanic landscapes, the search becomes something deeper: a confrontation with memory, masculinity, faith and care. Their father’s dementia haunts every step of the journey, destabilising the idea of authority and leaving the brothers to negotiate responsibility between them.
What emerges is a deeply humane novel about male bonds – messy, funny and tender – and about what it means to love someone when certainty has disappeared.