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Every Day Is Mother's Day

By: Hilary Mantel
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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 Literary Fiction Genre Fiction Romance Satire
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"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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Incredibly absorbing story

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.

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