{"product_id":"you-be-mother-the-debut-novel-from-the-author-of-sorrow-and-bliss","title":"You Be Mother: The debut novel from the author of Sorrow and Bliss","description":"Review\n\nRare and delightful . . . A beautifully crafted novel about female relationships ― Marie Claire\n\nThe kind of book you pick up . . . and never want to put down . . . You will fall in love with this book ― Lauren Sams, author of Crazy Busy Guilty and She’s Having Her Baby\n\nA domestic drama with humour, charm . . . A love letter to motherhood in all its complexity. An impressive debut novel that finds the biggest drama in the smallest of actions ― Better Reading\n\nProduct Description\n\nEVENING STANDARD'S 'BEST FICTION BOOKS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2022'\n\nWhat do you do, when you find the perfect family...\n...and it's not yours?\n\n'Rare and delightful . . . A beautifully crafted novel about female relationships. I couldn't put this book down'\nMarie Claire\n\nThe 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.\n\nIt 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.\n\nThat is, until she meets Phyllida, her wealthy, charming, imperious older neighbour, and they become almost like mother and daughter.\n\nIf only Abi had not told Phil that teeny tiny small lie, the very first day they met...\n\nBook Description\n\nTHE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF SORROW AND BLISS\nAn endearing novel about families - the ones we have, and the ones we want - and the stories we tell ourselves about them.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nMEG MASON began her journalism career at the Financial Times and The Times. Her work has since appeared in Vogue, Grazia, The Sunday Times, the Sydney Morning Herald and theSunday Telegraph. She has written humour for the New Yorker, been a monthly columnist for GQ, a regular contributor to Vogue and Marie Claire and a contributing editor at Elle. She lives in Sydney with her husband and two daughters.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40391211909205,"sku":"9781474625029N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/8eeb929c-1dd8-4880-b669-7a7dc908e7d9.jpg?v=1666602604","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/you-be-mother-the-debut-novel-from-the-author-of-sorrow-and-bliss","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}