{"product_id":"call-me-mummy-totally-absorbing-lorraine-kelly","title":"Call Me Mummy: 'Totally absorbing' - Lorraine Kelly","description":"Product Description      \n*** THE #1 KINDLE BESTSELLER ****** A NETGALLEY BOOK OF THE MONTH ***'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...________________________________________'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\n      Review      \nI loved [this] book. It's very dark, heartbreaking and totally absorbing -- Lorraine Kelly\n\n\nHorrifying 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, bestselling author of Blood Orange\n\n\nA powerful and thought-provoking page turner. The definition of unputdownable -- Katerina Diamond, author of\nThe Heatwave\n\n\nIt's brilliant. I had to read the last half of it all in one go as I couldn't put it down -- Eddie Mair, LBC Radio\n\n\nUtterly absorbing - I loved everything about this book, but especially the deeply flawed, brilliantly drawn protagonists. Such an imaginative premise and so brilliantly done -- Catherine Cooper, author of\nThe Chalet\n\n\nPsychologically twisty and utterly gripping - a novel to make you question the way things appear at first sight -- Lisa Hall, author of\nThe Perfect Couple\n\n\nI 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, author of\nThe Flower Girls\n\n\nCall Me Mummy\n is a twisty, heartbreaking thriller... [a] searing debut ―\nBest Magazine\n\n\nAnother must-read is Call Me Mummy by Tina Baker, a darkly comic thriller about two women who are worlds apart - until one steals the other one's child ―\nWaitrose Magazine\n\n\nA powerful, dark and bleak novel with broken characters that really got under my skin. Absorbing, gritty and very real -- Mel Sherratt, author of\nTick Tock\n\n\nDisturbing, 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, author of\nThe Storm\n\n\nSuperb. What a dark, troubling and beautifully written book. And it's threaded with a strand of bleak uncompromising humour which catches the reader off guard at the most unexpected moments. Read it! -- Kate Griffin, author of\nKitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders\n\n\nBleak but totally compelling and peppered with dark humour. Tense, twisted and totally unputdownable. Shocking and brilliant -- SJI Holliday, author of\nViolet\n\n\nA deliciously dark, emotionally truthful, sucker punch of a novel. Creepy, twisty and all too credible. A stunning debut -- Paul Burston, author of\nThe Closer I Get\n\n\nAn astonishing debut. Beautifully written, but also raw and uncompromising, this is a gut-punch of a novel -- David Jackson, author of\nThe Resident\n\n\nA peerlessly original thriller, pushing at the sore edges of","brand":"Viper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39930996195413,"sku":"9781788165242N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/ab8ce9ee-8355-4421-a89c-c55e59fb09e8.jpg?v=1644913621","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/call-me-mummy-totally-absorbing-lorraine-kelly","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}