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Every Day Is Mother's Day

By: Hilary Mantel
Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
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Evelyn and Muriel Axon, mother and daughter, lead a haunted existence. Objects of horror to their neighbours, they evade or terrorise any social worker who crosses their path. Inside their house, they pursue a covert persecution of each other, shrinking from the unseen occupants of their spare room. But change is in the air…

Every Day is Mother's Day is a merciless comedy of colliding lives: of sex, death, madness, adultery and the social services.

©1985 Hilary Mantel (P)2013 W F Howes Ltd Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Satire Comedy

Critic Reviews

"Strange…rather mad…extremely funny…she reminded me of the early Muriel Spark" ( Auberon Waugh)
"What a terrific book" ( Fay Weldon)
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I have circled back to read all of Hilary Mantel’s work after enjoying the Wolf Hall books so much. This, her first novel is just as sharply focused as the trilogy and I’m excited to think all her books will be so good.

Incredibly absorbing story

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