Motherland
Book description
Stay-at-home mum Fran Clarke is approaching both her thirty-seventh birthday and crisis point. Once a brilliant voiceover artist, she now hasn't worked for years. The talent hasn't deserted her -- only her self-belief. She could have it all, if she could only see it. But with her confidence shot and…
Why read it?
1 author picked Motherland as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Motherland because it resonates with my own theme of writing about the difficulties of being a wife and a mother.
Here, the heroine, Fran Clarke, a 37-year-old stay-at-home mum, is completely flawed. She is overwhelmed by motherhood, marriage, and has given up keeping up with the Joneses. Her former career as a talented voice artist has been replaced by a new task, i.e., drinking, and she repeatedly misses every tiny break life may throw her way.
She is also convinced that her husband Richard is having an affair but does nothing to confront him. And yet…
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