title: The Mother: A Novel
author:  Yvvette Edwards 
description: [A] tour de force that deserves recognition and as wide an audience as possible. (Patrik Bass, <i>Essence</i>)<br /><br />In the follow-up to her Man Booker Prize-nominated debut, <i>A Cupboard Full of Coats</i>, Edwards delivers a quietly devastating novel about a mothers attempt to survive after the murder of her 16-year-old son.... Set in Edwards native London, the books delicate, lyrical prose belies the horrifying events that propel the plot. Readers assumptions are challenged, along with Marcias, as the twisted realities of life for poor, urban teenagers become clear. Edwards manages to pull off a serious examination of how the social contract is failing a large portion of Britains urban population without moralizing in what is, ultimately, the story of one familys road to acceptance and healing in the wake of a tragic loss. (Booklist)<br /><br />In this memorable story of strength in the aftermath of violent tragedy, Edwards paints a close, vivid portrait of a mothers unrelenting mission to avoid anger and blame, instead finding real justice and necessary closure. (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>)<br /><br />A mother learns more about her murdered teenage son, and her family, than she knew possible during his killers trial. (<i>Brooklyn Magazine</i>)<br /><br />Here are beautifully drawn characters anchored in the universal experiences of love, loss, and grieving. With subtle nuance and elegant precision, Edwards crafts a richly detailed world that holds up the great weight that bears down on it: the death of a child. (Kirkus Reviews)<br /><br />Edwards perceptively explores a wide realm of issues, uncovering layer by layer the complicated answers to the questions that have hounded Marcia since her sons death Edwards writes with compassion for her characters and with intuitive understanding of the effects of loss on a family, as well as the underlying causes that can lead to senseless crimes such as this one. <i>The Mother</i> is highly recommended for readers who enjoy current issue-related fiction by authors such as Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard. (BookPage)<br /><br />Riveting [<i>The Mother</i>] explores how one mother copes with the murder of her son-and the courtroom drama of the trial that follows. (<i>The Root</i>)<br /><br />Yvvette Edwards knows how to break your heart. Vivid and real, I care about her characters they way Id care about my own kin. (Mitchell Jackson, author of <i>The Residue Years</i> and <i>Oversoul</i>)<br /><br /><i>The Mother</i> is beautiful in the clarity of its writing and honest emotion in its depiction of grief. Yvvette Edwards is a formidable talent. (Jervey Tervalon, author of <i>Monster Chef</i>, <i>The Cocaine Chronicles</i>, and <i>Dead Above Ground</i>)<br /><br />Seduces with gripping and enticing storytelling. It takes you through an amazing arrangement of emotions: anger, hate, despair, and grief, while tapping into what it means to yearn for a sense of humanity. An intense, pressure cooker of a novel, showing that Edwards is a star. (Guy A. Sims, <i>Author of Living Just a Little, Monster</i>, and <i>Brotherman Revelation</i>)
zlib_text: THE MOTHERS OF LOVELY LANE
   
  Nadine Dorries
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  About The Mothers of Lovely Lane
  Noleen Delaney is one of an army of night cleaners at St Angelus
  Hospital. Son Bryan has a good job as one of the hospital’s porters’ boys,
  but Finn has done something unheard-of and passed his eleven-plus
  exam. How on earth will they pay for his books, his grammar school
  uniform and shoes?
  Bronia Ryan has battled depression since her husband died. Even in that
  poor neighbourhood her house is a byword for chaotic squalor. And now
  one son is in prison. Her youngest, Lorcan, wants no part of a life of
  crime, but how can he ever escape? Or protect his mother from her
  vicious eldest son?
  As usual, St Angelus is at the heart of things. Life and death, love and
  loss, jealousies, rivalries and betrayals are woven into a rich tapestry –
  the latest instalment in Nadine’s great series about poverty, sacrifice and
  community spirit in pos