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Call Me Mummy

(2021)
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'Dark, heartbreaking and totally absorbing' - LORRAINE KELLY
'Brilliantly written and emotionally compulsive' - HARRIET TYCE

'A powerful and thought-provoking page turner' - KATERINA DIAMOND


CALL ME MUMMY. IT'LL BE BETTER IF YOU DO.

Glamorous, beautiful Mummy has everything a woman could want. Except for a daughter of her very own. So when she sees Kim - heavily pregnant, glued to her phone and ignoring her eldest child in a busy shop - she does what anyone would do. She takes her. But foul-mouthed little Tonya is not the daughter that Mummy was hoping for.

As Tonya fiercely resists Mummy's attempts to make her into the perfect child, Kim is demonised by the media as a 'scummy mummy', who deserves to have her other children taken too. Haunted by memories of her own childhood and refusing to play by the media's rules, Kim begins to spiral, turning on those who love her.

Though they are worlds apart, Mummy and Kim have more in common than they could possibly imagine. But it is five-year-old Tonya who is caught in the middle...
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*** A NETGALLEY BOOK OF THE MONTH ***

'Disturbing and distinctive, this is a book I couldn't put down' - AMANDA JENNINGS

'Tense and gripping, these characters will stay with me' - ALICE CLARK-PLATTS

'Psychologically twisty and utterly gripping' - LISA HALL

Genre: Mystery

Praise for this book

"I rattled through Call Me Mummy, biting my nails the entire time. Tense and gripping, these characters will stay with me for a long time." - Alice Clark-Platts

"A powerful and thought-provoking page turner. The definition of unputdownable." - Katerina Diamond

"Psychologically twisty and utterly gripping - a novel to make you question the way things appear at first sight." - Lisa Hall

"Bleak but totally compelling and peppered with dark humour. Tense, twisted and totally unputdownable. Shocking and brilliant." - SJI Holliday

"An astonishing debut. Beautifully written, but also raw and uncompromising, this is a gut-punch of a novel." - David Jackson

"Disturbing, distinctive, and peppered with black humour, this is a book I couldn't put down. If you like your fiction dark and compelling, you'll love Call Me Mummy." - Amanda Jennings

"A powerful, dark and bleak novel with broken characters that really got under my skin. Absorbing, gritty and very real." - Mel Sherratt

"A peerlessly original thriller, pushing at the sore edges of motherhood and childlessness. I read it with my free hand over my mouth and my heart in knots. Spectacular." - Kate Simants

"Horrifying and beautiful in equal measure, the characters truly lifelike in their all too human complexities. Brilliantly written and emotionally compulsive. I loved it." - Harriet Tyce


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