Bethan Roberts

Broschiertes Buch

Mother Island

Beschreibung

This is the story of two women, Nula and Maggie, joined by old family history and love for the same little boy. Nula, struggling with her new baby and feeling alone in her marriage, employs her cousin Maggie as a nanny when she returns to work.

Autor

Bethan Roberts has published five novels and writes stories and drama for BBC Radio 4. Her books include The Good Plain Cook, which was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime; My Policeman, the story of a 1950s policeman, his wife, and his male lover (now a major Amazon Original movie starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin); Mother Island, which received a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize; and Graceland, which tells the story of Elvis Presley and his mother, Gladys. She also writes short fiction, for which she has won the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Prize and the RA Pin Drop Award. Bethan has taught Creative Writing at Chichester University and Goldsmiths College, London. She lives in Brighton with her family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 647686
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780099555261
• ISBN-10: 0099555263
• Artikelnr.: 42395955

Rezensionen

Roberts writes fantastically well about motherhood and the magical, other-worldly atmosphere of Anglesey The Times