Book review: A Good Enough Mother
Published by Faber & Faber
Synopsis: Dr Ruth Hartland rises to
difficult tasks. She is the director of a highly respected trauma therapy unit.
She is confident, capable and excellent at her job. Today she is preoccupied by
her son Tom's disappearance.
So when a new patient arrives
at the unit - a young man who looks shockingly like Tom - she is floored.
As a therapist, Ruth
knows exactly what she should do in the best interests of her client, but as a
mother she makes a very different choice - a decision that will have profound
consequences.
How did this book end up in my
hands? I read the serialisation of this book via The Pigeonhole.
Was it a page-turner? Absolutely,
yes. The tension and foreboding were so high right from the beginning that I
almost held my breath throughout the book.
Did the book meet my expectations? I
didn’t connect with the title at first and I started reading with no expectations.
For this reason, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The character
building, the snippets of information gathered between the lines, the guessing…
it all added up to a brilliant reading experience.
Three words to describe it. Bleak. Gripping.
Insightful.
Do I like the cover? I do. At first
I wasn’t sure how relevant it was but now I like the fact that you can interpret it based on your understanding on the novel. For me, the
overflowing bath represents the destructive consequences of the sum of a string
of small actions that, individually, seem insignificant.
Have I read any other books by the
same author? No, this is a stunning debut novel. I certainly look forward to
reading the author’s future work.
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