You Be Mother

By Meg Mason

Categories: Literature & Fiction

You Be Mother is the 2017 debut novel by Meg Mason, later the bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss, reissued in the United Kingdom by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Abi, who has only ever wanted a proper family, leaves Croydon for Sydney with her three-week-old son Jude to join his father Stu, an Australian exchange student who turns out not to be ready for fatherhood. Lonely in a dazzling new city, she befriends Phyllida, her wealthy, imperious, recently widowed neighbour, until a small lie threatens everything.

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