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In an unrewarding relationship with an alcoholic musician, and treading water in a thankless job, Anna is hardly living her best life. She's never felt like she fitted in. She's never felt like she's had a proper family.
Her birth mother abandoned her on a traffic island when she was a baby, her adopted mother died in a car crash when she was seven, a car crash Anna survived. Then her father sent her away to boarding school.
Then Anna finds out she's pregnant. Chapter by chapter we move through her roller coaster of a pregnancy. Then she finds a clue about her birth family and she becomes consumed with finding out more. Out in time for #MothersDay but ‘Marlene’, ‘Ma’ might not be the birth mother that Anna had always dreamt of being reunited with.
This is an absolute page-turner. It'll have you sneaking away to grab precious reading time.
Deborah Maclaren
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Abigail Burdess Press Reviews
Mother's Day is terrific. So dark, so twisted and one of the most batsh*t crazy characters you'll ever meet in Marlene. - Harriet Tyce, bestselling author of Blood Orange
Superbly written and darkly funny, Mother's Day is an epic psychological thriller that revels in the visceral horror of family relationships. So brilliantly and horrifyingly executed I simply couldn't look away. Abigail Burdess is a refreshing and original writer - don't take your eyes off her. - Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal and The Twyford Code
Mother's Day is so dark and so shockingly, fabulously funny. I absolutely adored it. - Daisy Buchanan, bestselling author of Insatiable
Dark, brilliant, and completely and utterly compelling. - Jenny Colgan
Fast and funny, dark and beautiful - I loved every page. - Robert Webb, author of How Not To Be a Boy
A startlingly original, pitch dark page-turner - Claire McGowan, bestselling author of What You Did and The Other Wife
Deliciously dark, dripping in malice and drenched with razor sharp wit. Burdess is a writer to be watched - and feared. - John Marrs, bestselling author of What Lies Between Us and The Minders
A twisted, gruesome and diabolically funny exploration of motherhood that I lapped up like a feral cat. Dark, weird and brilliant, Mother's Day will haunt you - particularly Marlene, a jaw-dropping creation, the mother of malign mothers. - Beth Morrey, bestselling author of Saving Missy
A brilliant debut with all the twists and turns of Du Maurier and a stunning ending that leaves you breathless. Astonishingly good. - Robert Thorogood, bestselling author of The Marlow Murder Club
Messed up motherhood at its darkly funny and twisty best - what a debut thriller. - Cesca Major, author of Maybe Next Time
A fresh and complex story about the many layers of motherhood that twists and turns until you really can't imagine what might happen next. Startling and instantly intriguing. - Katy Brand, comedian and author of Practically Perfect
Mother's Day is completely gripping and quite terrifying, an addictive story about motherhood and madness. I was utterly blindsided by its twists and turns. - Lucy Porter
Fantastic: so funny, so human - you won't be able to put it down. - Isy Suttie, comedian and author of Jane is Trying
Read this book only if you can drop everything else in your life until you've finished it. - Marianne Levy, author of Don't Forget to Scream
Wickedly dark and devilishly funny, I loved this original take on the 'mother daughter' relationship. A must read for 2023! - Sophie Flynn, author of Keep Them Close
Had me absolutely gripped from the beginning. A dark and claustrophobic tale. - Ingrid Oliver, actor and comedian
Mother's Day is so dark and so shockingly, fabulously funny. I absolutely adored it. - Daisy Buchanan, bestselling author of Insatiable
