Mother Island - Hardcover

Roberts, Bethan

3.44

95 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701185856 ISBN 13: 9780701185855

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2014

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

How does it feel to come home from work one evening and find your two-year-old son gone? How does it feel to steal another woman's child? To take a boy from his mother, and try to make him yours, make things right? This is the story of two women, Nula and Maggie, joined by old family history and love for the same little boy. This is a taut, powerful novel about a nanny who abducts the young child she looks after.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Bethan Roberts has worked as a television documentary researcher, writer and assistant producer, and has taught Creative Writing at Chichester University and Goldsmiths College, London. She is the author of The Good Plain Cook, which was serialized on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and was chosen as one of Time Out's books of the year; My Policeman; and The Pools, which won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Award.

Review:

"Roberts writes fantastically well about motherhood and the magical, other-worldly atmosphere of Anglesey." —Times

"There's little more engrossing than a top-notch psychological thriller. Bethan Roberts's latest novel doesn't disappoint—it's satisfyingly creepy and stimulates that delicious paradox: goose-pimples in summer." —Independent

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.