You Be Mother by Meg Mason

£9.99

Bookseller review by Valerie

‘There are bound to be consequences when a lonely young mother of a newborn in need of mothering herself meets her dazzling elderly neighbour who also needs a daughter figure to take under her wing. We see life in Sydney through newly arrived Abi’s eyes but we are continually pulled back to London  by the ties that bind the characters there too. The writing deftly binds humour, pathos, love and sorrow with a remarkable sense of place. It’s very hard to believe this is a debut novel.’

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Description

The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Croydon fast enough, to start all over in Sydney and make her own family. It is not until she arrives, with three-week-old Jude in tow, that Abi realises Stu is not quite ready to be a father after all. And he is the only person she knows in this hot, dazzling, confusing city, where the job of making friends is turning out to be harder than she thought. That is, until she meets Phyllida, her wealthy, charming, imperious older neighbour, and they become almost like mother and daughter. If only Abi had not told Phil that teeny tiny small lie, the very first day they met.