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Like Mother

By: Cassandra Austin
Narrated by: Jacqui Duncan, Laurence Brewer
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It's 1969, and mankind has leapt up to the moon, but a young mother in small-town Australia can't get past the kitchen door. Louise Ashland is exhausted - her husband, Steven, is away on the road and her mother, Gladys, won't leave her alone. At least her baby, Dolores, has finally stopped screaming and is sweetly sleeping in her cot. Right where Louise left her. Or is she?

As the day unravels, Louise will unearth secrets her mother - and perhaps her own mind - have worked hard to keep buried. But what piece of family lore is so terrible that it has been kept hidden all this time? And what will exposing it reveal about mother and daughter?

Like Mother explores what is handed down from generation to generation and asks us whether a woman's home is her castle or her cage.

©2020 Cassandra Austin (P)2020 Penguin Random House Australia Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction
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The first part of the book was ok, but the end was abrupt, silly and just didn’t make sense at all.

The author ran out of steam

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I did not enjoy this book nor would I recommend it.
I grew very impatient with the plot and it grew more and more implausible as the supposed train wreak drew to a predictable ‘end’.

The storyline does little but enhance negative mother /daughter relationship stereotypes based on guilt and secrets.

Long winded and Predictable Ending

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The story drags and has no ultimate point except to glorify and exacerbate family trauma. I want to yell at the author for her insensitive to families where this sort of behaviour is the norm. Don’t bother.

Awful - don’t bother

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.