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The parent snatchers: The School for Good Mothers, by Jessamine Chan, reviewed

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

The School for Good Mothers Jessamine Chan

Hutchinson Heinemann, pp.336, 12.99

Frida Liu, the 39-year-old mother of a toddler named Harriet, has a very bad day which will haunt her for the length of this novel. She is divorced from Harriet’s father, a middle-aged man called Gust who has left her for a 28-year-old Pilates instructor called Susanna. Harriet will only fall asleep, Frida explains, ‘if I’m holding her hand’.

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