On an ordinary summer’s day in 1969, in a small Australian town, a new mother finds her baby missing from her cot. In this gothic novel, Cassandra Austin draws out the isolation and claustrophobia of new motherhood — and the judgement heaped upon ‘bad mothers’.
My review of Cassandra Austin’s novel, Like Mother, is up now at Newtown Review of Books. An intriguing read.
Cassandra Austin Like Mother Hamish Hamilton 2021 PB 304pp $32.99
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