![]() ![]() Though she has written many other books, including a YA trilogy of novels about Elizabeth I, this is her first novel for adults, and it’s a fast-paced, edgy read.īarely a week passes without news of another woman killed in circumstances where police knew the prior history of violence and the threat of further harm, where restraining orders had been breached, where the woman had left the relationship, sought refuge, but was menaced, hunted down and killed. Could it be you or someone you know? Furious at the inaction on women and children killed by their former partners, Jane Caro – who is also a Walkley Award-winning journalist – wrote The Mother as a contribution to our collective understanding. ![]() Its first words tell you that this middle-aged woman in a puffer jacket could be any one of the women at the school gate, at the deli, in the post office. Though I knew the gist of the issues raised by The Mother before I began – I’d read the devastating stories of victims of domestic violence, watched the news, and thought I understood the issues – this novel still shocks. Jane Caro’s new novel deals frankly with coercive control. ![]()
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