Nonfiction: A novel

Julie Myerson's novel explores maternal love as the emotional foundation we both crave and fear, weaving between childhoods past and present and a current narrative laced with temptation and betrayal. It is clear-eyed, self-lacerating, and at times frighteningly direct, offering a howl of fury and a moving love letter from a mother to a daughter.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 08 June 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Her best novel yet, The Times, has been described as incredibly compelling, and the Daily Mail has called it "incandescent." The Observer has praised it as "fiercely intelligent," and Publishers Weekly has deemed it "incandescently intelligent." Two parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying herself. Meanwhile, the mother, a novelist, attempts to understand her uneasy, unresolved relationship with her own mother.

Weaving between childhoods past and present, as well as a current narrative laced with temptation and betrayal, this is the delicate journey of a mother, daughter, wife, and author struggling to make sense of her world. But can a writer ever be trusted with the truth of her own story?

Clear-eyed, self-lacerating, and at times frighteningly direct, Julie Myerson's latest novel explores maternal love as the emotional foundation we both crave and fear. A howl of fury, as well as a moving love letter from a mother to a daughter, this is a book about damage, addiction, recovery, and creativity.

Weight: 234g
Dimension: 127 x 199 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472156785