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The first words of this novel are from a woman in bed with her lover, in a state of ecstasy, and it is not long before we realise that she is not a young woman. The woman is Edith, 73, seeking and finding pleasure with honesty and poignancy. It is a refreshing opening.
On an ordinary summer’s day in 1969, in a small Australian town, a new mother finds her baby missing from her cot. In this gothic novel, Cassandra Austin draws out the isolation and claustrophobia of new motherhood — and the judgement heaped upon ‘bad mothers’. My review of Cassandra Austin's novel, Like Mother, is up …
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